Folk / country musician Tom Russell wrote " Manzanar ", a song about the Japanese American internment, that was released on his album Box of Visions ( 1993 ).

Gold coast musician Mark Boulle is pioneering the way with his original Indie Folk music.

* Folk musician Tom Paxton adapted the book into a song of the same title.

Folk rock musician Cat Stevens performing in 1976

JaFolk Mix is a term coined by Jamaican musician Joy Fairclough, to mean the mix of Jamaican Folk Music with any foreign and local styles of music and the evolution of a new sound created by their fusion.

* Patty Larkin, American Folk musician

The kaval is primarily associated with mountain shepherds throughout the Balkans and Anatolia and in the book Kaval: Traditional Folk Melodies for Balkan & Anatolian Folk Flute, musician Pat MacSwyney suggest that the kaval spread with the Yoruks from the Taurus mountains of southern Anatolia into the southern Balkans of southeast Europe.

In 1983, musician and producer Art Greenhaw booked the Doughboys to play at the Mesquite Folk Festival, which Greenhaw had founded.

Folk musician Alejandro Flores plays violin and is considered the fifth Tacubo.

* Folk musician Kelly Green wrote a song entitled " Julia Butterfly " inspired in part by Julia " Butterfly " Hill.

In the late 1970s and early 80s, How Can I Keep From Singing was recorded by Catholic Folk musician Ed Gutfreund ( on an album called " From An Indirect Love "), and the music was published in a widely used Catholic Hymnal called " Glory and Praise ," and was popular among Catholic liturgical music ministers, especially those who used guitar.

An amateur folk musician, each December Zorn joins with Schmich to host " Songs of Good Cheer ," holiday caroling parties at the Old Town School of Folk Music to raise money for the Tribune Holiday Fund charities.

Folk musician Greg Brown recorded sixteen of the poems on his 1987 album Songs of Innocence and of Experience and by Finn Coren in his Blake Project.

Michael Nesmith recruited fellow folk musician Chip Douglas, a member of The Modern Folk Quartet and The Turtles, to produce the album.

Contributors include Asatru Folk Assembly founder Stephen McNallen, Nouvelle Droite leader Alain de Benoist, an interview with noted French comparative philologist Georges Dumézil, British musicologist and translator Joscelyn Godwin, modern Germanic mysticist Nigel Pennick and scholar Stephen Flowers, besides translations of texts by " Traditionalist " author and occultist Julius Evola and völkisch poet and musician Hermann Löns.

Folk musician Harry Manx, who studied with Salil Bhatt and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt for five years, plays a Mohan Veena.

In 1928, Appalachian musician and collector Bascom Lamar Lunsford, a native banjo player and fiddler of the North Carolina mountains, organized the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, which is held annually in Asheville, North Carolina.

Dock Rmah, a prominent Jarai musician living in the United States, received a Folk Heritage Award from the North Carolina Arts Council in 1996.

Dylan probably first heard of the blues musician through Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, which ended with one of Thomas's best-known tunes, " Fishin ' Blues ".

Folk musician James Yorkston was brought up in Kingsbarns.

The songwriter Stephen Foster is remembered here at the Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park.

Folk singer Arlo Guthrie lives in Washington, as does singer / songwriter James Taylor.

* 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.

Provo based folk singer / songwriter Joshua James had moderate success in 2007 when his album The Sun is Always Brighter reached number one on the iTunes Folk Album chart.

He started out as a singer / songwriter in folk and blues music in the 1970s and was chosen as one of the winners of the New York Songwriters in Concert contest at Gerde's Folk City, New York in 1981 ( along with Suzanne Vega ).

While some music took place quite informally in Washington Square Park, a number of clubs, such as The Bitter End and Gerde's Folk City were also central to the development of what was originally called " Folk Music " but would evolve into " Singer – songwriter " music as more and more acoustic musicians performed original material.

A friend in San Antonio suggested McMurtry enter the New Folk songwriter contest ; he became one of six winners that year.

* Justin Nozuka-Canadian / American Folk singer / songwriter

Folk songwriter Marius Baţu replaced him in the group and Pasărea Colibri released one more album before disbanding in 2003.

Under the name " The Folk Footballers ," Leo Moran and former Saw Doctor Padraig Stevens released The First Fifteen, a collection of songs that celebrated the Galway football team in the wake of its success in the 1998 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

" Folk singer Judy Collins, who knew the song before she could remember learning it, witnessed Fannie Lou Hamer leading marchers in Mississippi in 1964, singing " Amazing Grace ".

In 2002, the US remake of Queer as Folk used the song " Smalltown Boy " in an episode.

* Folk Metal band Turisas makes multiple references to Constantinople in their song " Miklagard Overture ", referring to it as " Konstantinopolis ", " Tsargrad ", and " Miklagard ".

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.

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 ).

The album won a Grammy in 2000 ; as an indicator of how difficult it is to classify Waits's music, he was nominated simultaneously for Best Contemporary Folk Album ( which he won ) and Best Male Rock Vocal Performance ( for the song " Hold On "), both different from the genre for which he won his previous Grammy.

* Van Diemen's Land is mentioned in the song " Australia " by comedy folk band Folk On.

The Roud Folk Song Index, which catalogues folk songs and their variations by number, classifies the song as 13026.

* Folk singer Al Stewart mentions Haarlem in his song " Amsterdam ".

Folk Rock band Sun Kil Moon recorded an eponymous song about Sanchez on their 2003 album Ghosts of the Great Highway.

* Folk artist Old Man Luedecke released a song entitled " Monsanto Jones ", criticizing Monsanto's business practices by way of making light of a character named Monsanto Jones.

Roger McGuinn has used the Internet to continue the folk music tradition since November 1995 by recording a different folk song each month on his Folk Den site.

Folk singer Woody Guthrie's song, " 1913 Massacre ", is based on this event.

* Camelot — Richard Burton and Julie Andrews performing an extended scene including the title song and " What Do the Simple Folk Do?

Folk Singer Stan Rogers made the community of Rawdon famous by writing the song " The Rawdon Hills " ( See Video ).

) The popularity of " Sarah Jackman " ( as well as the album My Son, the Folk Singer ) was enhanced after President John F. Kennedy was spotted in a hotel lobby singing the song.

These researchers included Robert W. Gordon, founder of the Archive of American Folk Song, and John and Alan Lomax ; Alan Lomax was the most prominent of several folk song collectors who helped to inspire the 20th century roots revival of American folk culture.

Lomax, now 17, therefore took a break from studying to join his father's folk song collecting field trips for the Library of Congress, co-authoring American Ballads and Folk Songs ( 1934 ) and Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly ( 1936 ).

* Australian Folk Songs: Moreton Bay Folk song about the penal colony at Moreton Bay

The group formed in the Waterhouse district of Kingston in 1972, initially called simply " Uhuru " ( the Swahili word for freedom ), with a line-up of Derrick " Duckie " Gong Simpson, founder and CEO, Garth Dennis, and lastly Don Carlos Their first release was a cover version of Curtis Mayfield's " Romancing to the Folk Song ", which was followed by " Time is on Our Side "; Neither song was a success and they split up, with Carlos pursuing a solo career, as did Dennis, before joining The Wailing Souls.