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Pages in category "American folk singers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 725 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Called the "Dean of American Balladeers," [1] Niles was an important influence on the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, with Odetta, Joan Baez, Burl Ives, Peter, Paul and Mary and Bob Dylan, among others, recording his songs.
Pages in category "American folk-pop singers" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Dianna Agron; B.
The Big 3 (folk group) Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys; Big Virginia Sky; Birds of Chicago; The Biscuit Burners; The Bittersweets; Black Lodge Singers; Black Twig Pickers; Blame Sally; Blood Axis; Banjo Dan and the Mid-nite Plowboys; Bonny Light Horseman (band) The Border Blasters; Borderline (band) Boyd and Wain; Breaux Brothers; The Briarwood ...
American women folk musicians (1 C, 10 P) Pages in category "American folk musicians" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 364 total.
The Newport Folk Festival is an annual American folk-oriented music festival in Newport, Rhode Island, which began in 1959 as a counterpart to the Newport Jazz Festival. The festival was founded by music promoter and Jazz Festival founder George Wein , music manager Albert Grossman , and folk singers Pete Seeger , Theodore Bikel , and Oscar Brand .
Singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie emerged from the dust bowl of Oklahoma and the Great Depression in the mid-20th century, with lyrics that embraced his views on ecology, poverty, and unionization, paired with melody reflecting the many genres of American folk music. The American folk music revival began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity ...
Americana/Folk Albums (formerly Folk Albums) is a music chart published weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks the top selling "current releases by traditional folk artists, as well as appropriate titles by acoustic-based singer-songwriters" in the United States. [1]