How to Use folk singer in a Sentence

folk singer

noun
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  • Not to be confused with the folk singer of the same name, this Jewel is a real gem.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Paired with a bushy, untamed beard, the look is very '70s folk singer—only shinier.
    — Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 4 Feb. 2018
  • All the folk singers on Bleecker Street learned their set from that album.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2023
  • The show starts at 7:30, with folk singer Patty Griffin as the opening act.
    — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 July 2022
  • His wife, Peng Liyuan, is a famous folk singer in China.
    — CNN, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The raspy-voiced country-folk singer was a favorite of Bob Dylan.
    — Jonathan Wolfe, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2020
  • The cause was liver cancer, said his daughter, Amy Fradon, a folk singer.
    — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
  • When Odetta, the folk singer and civil-rights activist, appeared on the show, Cash sang a duet with her.
    — Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The shooting of a folk singer in a region north of Kabul contributed to such fears.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The shooting of a folk singer in a tense region north of Kabul was bound to contribute to such fears.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2021
  • The American folk singer Tim Hardin nearly joined up at one point.
    — David Renard, New York Times, 12 June 2018
  • At the canvassing event, Ryan was joined by Paul Simon, the legendary folk singer.
    — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 24 Sep. 2022
  • The outlet added that Edward Norton will join the movie's cast as folk singer Pete Seeger.
    — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Barry is the kind of folk singer who writes about jumping trains and snorting methamphetamine.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 23 June 2018
  • Denyes is a folk singer and songwriter who writes songs that make children laugh, think, sing, dance, clap and stomp their feet.
    — Ramona Sentinel, 5 June 2019
  • Simon launched his career in the late 1950s as a folk singer along with his childhood friend Art Garfunkel.
    — NBC News, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The folk singer Joan Baez was invited to play a version of Guthrie’s song for those in attendance.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The tragedy took 29 seamen’s lives and was made famous by folk singer Gordon Lightfoot.
    — cleveland, 6 Nov. 2022
  • His action sparked others, including folk singer Joni Mitchell, to do the same.
    — Anne Steele, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Cost is $5 for a boxed lunch, dessert, drink and the concert featuring local folk singer Jeff Varga.
    — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 13 Apr. 2021
  • But Baez is still a folk singer and political activist at heart.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Eric Von Schmidt, another folk singer active at the time, once said.
    — New York Times, 19 May 2022
  • In My Own Time, a new documentary on the folk singer out October 1st.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Maybe being a folk singer is what has been his long enduring legacy.
    — David Chiu, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
  • So posits longtime New York folk singer Peter Stampfel in the form of his new ambitious recording project.
    — Chris Varias, The Enquirer, 19 Feb. 2021
  • As folk singers and comics, the brothers conjured laughs and stirred controversy.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 27 Dec. 2023
  • It's been nearly 40 years since folk singer-songwriter Harry Chapin died in a car crash on his way to a New York concert.
    — Gary Dinges, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Guthrie, the oldest son of folk singer Woody Guthrie, announced the nuptials in a Facebook post, sharing a photo of him and Ladd on their wedding day.
    — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 3 Jan. 2022
  • The 81-year-old Canadian folk singer is considered one of the greatest songwriters of all time.
    — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 18 June 2020
  • But that was hardly evident in the postage-stamp-size town of Paradise, Ky., made famous by a 1971 song by the folk singer John Prine, whose family was from the area.
    — Eric Lipton, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2020

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