folk performance
Grassroots stage act
Folk performance is any traditional artistic expression passed down through communities—music, dance, storytelling, puppetry, or ritual enacted before an audience.
The term emphasizes both the cultural roots and the live, participatory nature of the art: The festival featured folk performances from across the region.
Folk performance often preserves customs that predate written records.
- folktalesTraditional oral narratives
- oral traditionCulture passed by speech
- cloggingObstructing a passage
- fiddle tunesTraditional string melodies
- old time musicTraditional Appalachian folk genre
mask-making · harvest festivals · shanties · chants · ballads · dirges · square dancing · flamenco · laments · wedding rites · hula · fire dancing · hymns · puppet theater · initiation ceremonies · circle dances · step dancing · call-and-response
folk performancestadium concert
Large-scale musical event
arena show · West End show · grand opera · pop concert · Cirque du Soleil
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