Folk music is primarily distinguished by several styles.

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

This is a tour of American music — jump blues, slow blues, rockabilly, Tin Pan Alley ballads, Country Swing — that evokes the sprawl, fatalism and subversive humor of Dylan's sacred text, Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, the pre-rock voicings of Hank Williams, Charley Patton and Johnnie Ray, among others, and the ultradry humor of Groucho Marx.

In early 1964, Benny and Christina joined a group with the odd name " Elverkets Spelmanslag " (" The Electricity Board Folk Music Group "), who by no means was a folk music ensemble: the name was a punning reference to their electric instruments.

All the music was written by and performed by himself on accordion, backed by the Orsa Spelmän ( Orsa Folk Musicians ) on fiddles.

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By then, early dance camps, retreats, and weekends had emerged, such as Pinewoods Camp, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, which became primarily a music and dance camp in 1933, and NEFFA, the New England Folk Festival, also in Massachusetts, which began in 1944.

After leaving Villanova, McLean became associated with famed folk music agent Harold Leventhal, and for the next six years performed at venues and events including the Bitter End and the Gaslight Cafe in New York, the Newport Folk Festival, the Cellar Door in Washington, D. C., and the Troubadour in Los Angeles.

* Irish Folk music fiddling including:

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

Folk music may tend to have certain characteristics but it cannot clearly be differentiated in purely musical terms.

" One widely used definition is simply " Folk music is what the people sing ".

Folk music was already " seen as the authentic expression of a way of life now past or about to disappear ( or in some cases, to be preserved or somehow revived )," particularly in " a community uninfluenced by art music " and by commercial and printed song.

The International Folk Music Council definition allows that the term " can also be applied to music which has originated with an individual composer and has subsequently been absorbed into the unwritten, living tradition of a community.

Contemporaneously with Child came the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould, and later and more significantly Cecil Sharp who worked in the early 20th century to preserve a great body of English rural traditional song, music and dance, under the aegis of what became and remains the English Folk Dance and Song Society ( EFDSS ).

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* 1965 – Bob Dylan goes electric as he plugs in at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.

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Like Mississippi John Hurt, he was welcomed into the music scene of the 1960s and played at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964, the New York Folk Festival in July 1965, and the October 1967 European tour of the American Folk Festival along with Skip James and Bukka White.

Folk / gospel duo Robin and Linda Williams have been regular guests since 1976, and often join Keillor and another female performer, often Jearlyn Steele, to form " The Hopeful Gospel Quartet ".

In the 2007 Folk Awards Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick won " Best duo ".

The duo was nominated for a Best New Artist Grammy ( losing to Milli Vanilli ), and won one for Best Contemporary Folk Recording.

The duo recorded their first and only album at the recommendation of Pentangle band guitarist, John Renbourn, whom Oldfield met at the Troubadour Folk Club in Bristol.

Former members now perform in the Caught Flies ( formerly known as Triple Corpse Horror ) and current members play in the NH punk band the Smashed as well as New England Irish / Folk pub group and popular St. Patricks day musicians Whiskey Prison and NH rock band Meatsaw and blues duo Yankee Cockfight.

She sang and played fiddle with science fiction author Emma Bull in folk duo The Flash Girls, with the band Folk UnderGround, and in the goth / folk / rock / traditional Celtic duo Lorraine a ' Malena with Malena Teves, which whom she also contributed to Chris Ewen's The Hidden Variable.

A few days later, he received three Wammies ( Washington, DC, Area Music Awards ); as Best Male Vocalist in the " traditional folk " and " children's music " categories, and for Best Traditional Folk Recording of the Year for Under American Skies ( the duo album he made with Anne Hills in 2001 ).

* A cover by husband and wife duo Sam Lakeman and Cara Dillon was included on the 2006 compilation Rubber Folk.

When that band broke up following the 1995 album Shy Folk, Brown and Fenner moved to New York City and continued writing and performing as a duo.

In 1968 and 1969 the duo recorded two albums: Folk Songs of Olde England, ( Volumes One and Two ).

* 1995: Folk duo Paul Sartin ( vocals, violin, oboe and whistle ) and Paul Hutchinson ( accordion ).

Folk Music was the fourth studio album by English acoustic roots duo Show of Hands.

Originally formed at the University of Vermont as an acoustic duo " Strange Folk " in 1991 with Trafton and other founding member Reid Genauer, Strangefolk ( now one word ) added bass and drums within a year and took to playing the bars in and around the vibrant musical community of Burlington, Vermont.

The duo received 2012 Grammy Awards for Best Country Duo / Group Performance and Best Folk Album.

The soundtrack features songs by Newman, Bobby Darin, The Who, Free, Eels, The Guess Who, Bill Withers, Betty Carter, Peggy Lee, The Folk Implosion, Gomez, and Bob Dylan, as well as two cover versions — The Beatles ' " Because " performed by Elliott Smith, and Neil Young's " Don't Let It Bring You Down " performed by Annie Lennox.

* Bill Morrissey ( 1951-2011 ), Folk music singer / songwriter, graduated ABRHS in 1969

* Folk / Alternative singer / songwriter Bill Mallonee includes references to the Great Wallenda stepping out over Tallulah Gorge in his song " Balaam's Ass " from the recording Blister Soul by the Vigilantes of Love.

The Cloggies, an Everyday Saga in the Life of Clog Dancing Folk, was a long-running cartoon by Bill Tidy that ran in the satirical magazine Private Eye from 1967 to 1981, and later in The Listener from 1985 to 1986.

Williamson teamed up with Bill Smith ( born William Smith, in 1936, in Edinburgh ) and Ron Cruikshank to form the " Corrie Folk Trio " in 1962.

Browne's musical career began when he met Roy Williamson and multi-instrumentalist Bill Smith at Edinburgh College of Art in 1955 and formed the Corrie Folk Trio in 1962.

The Folk Song Club is a volunteer run, non-profit organisation which has featured many notable singers and musicians including Eric Bogle, Martin Carthy, Fairport Convention, Vin Garbutt, Bill Jones, John Kirkpatrick, Lindisfarne, Ralph McTell, Show of Hands, Steeleye Span and Richard Thompson.

It was while he was living in Denver for a short stint that he was given his first opportunity to perform in front of an attentive audience, opening for singer-songwriter Bill Staines at the Swallow Hill Folk Music Center.