There were also a handful of acoustic musical performers including classical guitarist John Williams, actress / singer Julie Covington and folk troubadour Pete Atkin.

Although there were a handful of clubs that allowed space for the performance of traditional folk music by the early 1950s, its major boost came from the short-lived British skiffle craze, from about 1956-8.

Latter-day Saints still sing a handful of folk songs such as the Handcart Song.

The phrase " Hully Gully " or " Hull da Gull " comes from a folk game in which a player shakes a handful of nuts or seeds and asks his opponent " Hully Gully, how many?

In other versions of the myth, a handful of the tiny forms are blown into the air by a sudden upcurrent, and they become the ancestors of some minor faerie folk.

By May 2012, Kid Rock was still the first of a handful of high-profile musicians to endorse Mitt Romney, including Ted Nugent and Lee Greenwood.

is steeped with references to the 1960s popular music scene ( at one point a list of 200 fictional bands performing at the Walpurgisnacht rock festival is reeled off ( including a handful of actual bands of the 60s ), and there are numerous references to the famous rock and roll song, " Rock Around the Clock "), and has influenced many bands and musicians.

But perhaps because his playing was so difficult to copy, only a handful of musicians — such as Oscar Peterson, Johnny Costa, Johnny Guarnieri, Adam Makowicz, Luther G. Williams, Steven Mayer and Christopher Jordan, and, outside of the usual roster of jazz pianists, Andre Previn — have attempted to seriously emulate or challenge Tatum.

Local musicians would often join the band for a handful of performances, then depart.

Although there was a tradition of massed instruments in the ritual court music form known as yayue, for the most part music was usually played by a handful of musicians, and even in yayue a single dominant melodic line was favoured.

These four musicians played a small handful of concerts in the months that followed before dropping the " as " prefix, deciding that they had properly reunited the band and continuing as such.

Only a handful of Catholics, young musicians and ship's boys were spared their lives.

Studio musicians were not credited by Motown until Marvin Gaye's What's Going On in 1971, although Motown released a handful of singles and LPs by Earl Van Dyke.

The musicians in those bands had honed their skills in a handful of British blues bands, primarily those of John Mayall and Alexis Korner.

Floyd was one of a handful of openly gay musicians in the 1980s punk scene.

After the cardinal's death Marenzio served at the court of Cardinal Luigi d ' Este, who was a friend of Madruzzo ; according to Marenzio himself, writing in the dedication of his first madrigal book, he was the cardinal's maestro di cappella, although Luigi's musical establishment only included a handful of musicians.

In addition, Appel's group The Applejacks functioned as the de facto Cameo house band for the first few years of the company's existence, serving as backing musicians for the label's vocalists as well as issuing a handful of instrumental singles on their own.

A handful of Sydney jazz musicians including John Pochée, Barry Woods, Dave MacRae, Andy Brown and Bernie McGann also travelled south around that time, finding work in venues such as " The Fat Black Pussycat ", another Melbourne jazz club that provided an outlet for those intent on playing uncompromising forms of jazz.

In the end, less than a handful of musicians actually received a Birotron.

After the release of Fangs !, band members Jessy Ribordy and Josh Shroy started a side project under the name The River Empires, who created an album titled " Epilogue " with the help of The Dear Hunter's Casey Crescenzo, as well as a handful of other musicians.

It reformed in 1993 when a handful of brass band musicians met at the Bache Public House in Highley.

This was followed later in the year by his third album Road To Town, with contributions by a handful of other musicians including Tommy Emmanuel.

" After finding a handful of like-minded musicians, Katie assigned them instruments and taught them to play.

For the next ten years, Mackay played with a cross-section of underground musicians: Violent Femmes, Snakefinger, Commander Cody, Smegma, Zu, Andre Williams, The Moonlighters, Clubfoot Orchestra, and a handful of other efforts ( including Van Rozay from San Jose ) continued into the late 1980s.

He was notable in that he was one of only a handful of young African American musicians from Mississippi who had learned and was continuing the Delta blues and country blues traditions of the older generations.

The event could be considered a showcase for up-and-coming artists, but there were usually at least a handful of " big names " and seasoned musicians that performed as well.

Currently, there are some 6000 companies in the field, ranging from small firms with a handful of employees to major concerns having complete facilities for production of metal, electrical, and plastic components.

Knowledge that thousands of school districts are involved and observation that school desegregation has occurred in only a handful in 1959-1960 leads to a conclusion that desegregation-from-court-order is slow.

As widespread inefficiencies in numbering ( such as the assignment of entire blocks of 10000 numbers to every competing carrier in every small village to support local number portability schemes ) have created shortages of available numbers, these prefixes are often " reclaimed " and issued as standard exchanges, moving the handful of numbers in them to one standard test exchange ( usually 958 ).

Although there are numerous kinds of disaccharides, a handful of disaccharides are particularly notable.

The CRTC is sometimes blamed for the current state of the mobile phone industry in Canada, in which there are only three national mobile network operators – Bell Mobility, Telus Mobility, and Rogers Wireless – as well as a handful of MVNOs operating on these networks.

As the name suggests these are roughly the groups of Lie type over fields of characteristic 2, plus a handful of others that are alternating or sporadic or of odd characteristic.

There are a handful of sites on the web that compare chapters translated by various authors such as TaoTeChingMe. com and Wayist. org.

Little is known about Euclid's life, as there are only a handful of references to him.

Some relatively lightweight exoplanets, only a few times more massive than Earth ( now known by the term Super-Earth ), are known as well ; statistical studies now indicate that they actually outnumber giant planets while recent discoveries have included Earth-sized and smaller planets and a handful that appear to exhibit other Earth-like properties.

There are only a handful of commands available.

Apart from a handful of cases, these designations are not currently in use.

A handful of new servers are set up every year by hobbyists – over 50 have been set up and added to Floodgap's list since 1999.

Humans are the only primate species that have undergone significant hair loss and of the approximately 5000 extant species of mammal, only a handful are effectively hairless.

Mainly constructed of dead and dried coral skeletons, providing only calcite as a source of nutrients, the small and narrow strips of dry land are only habitable by a handful of species for short periods of time.

Kvikkalkul was allegedly developed on Baudot code systems, and used only the " figures " mode, so the only characters in Kvikkalkul source are whitespace, digits, and a handful of punctuation characters.

Additionally, owing to its Southern roots, all but a handful of NASCAR teams are still based in North Carolina, especially near Charlotte.

Newfoundland French was deliberately discouraged by the Newfoundland government through the public schools during the mid-20th-century, and only a small handful of mainly elderly people are still fluent in the French-Newfoundland dialect.

There are also a handful of short inscriptions found on archaeological artefacts, including a number of bronze mirrors.

There are approximately 400 brightener types listed in the Color Index, but less than 90 are actually produced commercially and only a handful are commercially important.

Bunkhouse, bed and breakfast and camping facilities are available in the town and there are also a handful of local shops where visitors can stock up on essential items.