folk singing

noun

1. the singing of folk songs, especially by a group of people.

Word History and Origins

Origin of folk singing¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

The camera sits in on sessions of traditional Irish folk singing at the Cobblestone, a pub — not on the road, but five minutes away — that has been an important site for the revival of that musical genre.

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I didn't strive to be that young, naive woman again, the one who once asked a family of five dressed all in black if they were a folk singing group — they weren't; they were on their way to their mother's funeral — or the one got screamed at for accidentally threw away the caviar ice mold.

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Meanwhile, Vittorio Giampietro’s score — a spare meld of folk singing, percussion and lonely instruments — is its own artful coloring.

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It was the start of beatnik culture: there were folk singing nights, jazz nights, poetry nights.

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Tall and athletic, with a fondness for folk singing and motorcycle riding, Gantz was a consensus figure for Israelis when chief of the conscript military between 2011 and 2015.

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