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Recent Examples of folk song
This includes folk songs, spirituals and music from the stage and screen.
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Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
There are references to a 16th-century Venetian playwright, an old American folk song, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
—Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2025
Musicians Darius Rucker, Lee Ann Rimes and Jon Batiste are also featured on the album, made up of 10 tracks of folk songs and Sunday school lessons from Carter.
—Elizabeth Stanton, Fox News, 3 Feb. 2025
Carter won the trophy for his narration of Last Sundays in Plains: A Centennial Celebration, a 10-track album of folk songs and Sunday school lessons from the former president.
—Zoe G. Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Feb. 2025
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Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
There are references to a 16th-century Venetian playwright, an old American folk song, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
—Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2025
Musicians Darius Rucker, Lee Ann Rimes and Jon Batiste are also featured on the album, made up of 10 tracks of folk songs and Sunday school lessons from Carter.
—Elizabeth Stanton, Fox News, 3 Feb. 2025
Carter won the trophy for his narration of Last Sundays in Plains: A Centennial Celebration, a 10-track album of folk songs and Sunday school lessons from the former president.
—Zoe G. Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for folk song
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The music moves from inventive, engaging art song to smoldering improvisations in which Wilkins and his bandmates—anchored by his regular colleagues Micah Thomas on piano, Rick Rosato on bass and Kweku Sumbry on drums—push to the outer limits.—
Steve Hochman,
SPIN,
21 Oct. 2024
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As a map of Austin’s musical journey, the recital moved through spirituals and standard repertoire into 20th-century and contemporary art song and opera.—
Michael Andor Brodeur,
Washington Post,
14 Dec. 2023
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On Monday morning, CBS Mornings host Gayle King, pop star Katy Perry, journalist Lauren Sánchez, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe and film producer Kerianne Flynn traveled to space.—
Sara Vallone,
Miami Herald,
14 Apr. 2025
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Jeff Bezos falls after Blue Origin New Shepard capsule lands Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos took a tumble in Texas while circling the New Shepard capsule that landed safely after carrying fiancee Lauren Sanchez, pop star Katy Perry and others to space, Monday.—
Greg Wehner,
FOXNews.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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The National’s Matt Berninger has released another single from his second solo album.—
Matthew Strauss,
Pitchfork,
18 Apr. 2025
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But an Oswaldo Cabrera solo shot put the Yankees down one in the fifth before a force out off the bat of Cody Bellinger tied the game at three.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
18 Apr. 2025
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Anna Barclay | Getty Images News | Getty Images Oil giant BP is bracing itself for a shareholder backlash at its annual general meeting (AGM) on Thursday, with a chorus of disgruntled investors planning to voice their concerns over the firm’s green strategy U-turn.—
Sam Meredith,
CNBC,
17 Apr. 2025
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An orchestra, a chorus, a jazz big band, a marching band—these are complex macroorganisms whose inner workings require formidable feats of interactive precision, all of which depend on information encoded in a written score.—
Matthew Aucoin,
The Atlantic,
15 Apr. 2025
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Its design seems to stay consistent with the iPhone 16 lineup, featuring volume rockers and Action Button on the left side.—
Prakhar Khanna,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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The punk rockers already had some fun at the festival: Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong joined The Go-Gos to perform on Friday.—
Julyssa Lopez,
Rolling Stone,
12 Apr. 2025
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Then, while these chants were echoing around the arena, a shouting match broke out between Smart and a fan seated behind the Wizards’ bench.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
7 Apr. 2025
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Sporadic chants punctuated a steady stream of tambourines, car horns, applause and cheering.—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Apr. 2025
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The pop ballad, which helped kick off his own career years ago, is back in a huge way.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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But the emotional disconnect is impossible to overcome in a show that's almost entirely sentimental ballads.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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What’s causing this mockery and glee at misfortune?—
Callum Booth,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
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Another way of positioning this reaction is as an example of schadenfreude, a term used to explain taking glee in someone’s suffering—and that’s a key reason to explaining why some people are reacting to the stock market dip in this way.—
Callum Booth,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
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“Folk song.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/folk%20song. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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