folk musicians
Acoustic roots performers
Folk musicians are performers who play folk music—traditional songs passed down through communities, or contemporary music in that acoustic, storytelling style.
The term suggests authenticity and grassroots origins, often contrasting with commercial pop: Folk musicians gathered at the festival with their acoustic guitars and banjos.
She started as a folk musician before going electric.
- violinistsPlayers of bowed strings
- instrumentalistsMusicians using tools
- improvisersThose creating spontaneously
- fiddleAdjust restlessly; folk violin
- banjoFretted drum-stringed instrument
acoustic guitar · communal singing · oral tradition · hootenanny · Woody Guthrie · Appalachian music · sea shanties · accompanists · bard · troubadour · work songs · dulcimer · old time music · storytelling · field recordings · bluegrass · Pete Seeger · protest songs
- ArgentinaBuenos Aires, tango, Messi, Patagonia, mate
- folk dancetraditional dance, ethnic dance, group dance, circle dance, line dance
- music legendsThe Beatles, Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Chuck Berry
- NorwegiansRoald Amundsen, Henrik Ibsen, Edvard Grieg, Edvard Munch
- strummersguitarists, ukulele players
- Jewish livesrabbis, survivors, Jewish scholars, Jewish women, cantors