folk singers
Guitar-strumming balladeers
Folk singers perform traditional or traditionally styled songs, typically accompanying themselves on acoustic guitar or similar instruments.
The term covers both performers of authentic traditional music and the broader folk revival movement of the mid-twentieth century: Joan Baez and Bob Dylan were the defining folk singers of the 1960s.
Folk singers are associated with protest music and social causes.
- bardsPoet-musicians of old
- minstrelsItinerant medieval performers
- troubadoursMedieval lyric poet-musicians
- traveling troupeItinerant entertainment group
- balladeerSinger of narrative songs
coffeehouses · Greenwich Village · open mic night · singer-songwriters · hootenanny · Woody Guthrie · Bob Dylan · Joan Baez · Pete Seeger · oral tradition · protest songs · civil rights movement · traditional ballads · oral history · vinyl · strumming · dusty · melancholy
- singerssoprano, alto, tenor, bass, baritone
- entertainers in artactors, dancers, musicians, comedians, circus performers
- folk musicCeltic revival, singer-songwriter, traditional music, traditional songs, traditional ballads
- musical ensemblesband, duet, orchestra, trio, quartet
- notable peoplepoliticians, artists, leaders, writers, scientists
- amateur singersserenaders
folk singersopera singers
Classical theatrical vocalists
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