The story revolves around the real-life guild of Meistersinger ( Master Singers ), an association of amateur poets and musicians, mostly from the middle class and often master craftsmen in their main professions.

The Swingle Singers used nonsense words to sound like instruments, but have been known to produce non-verbal versions of musical instruments.

During the period from the 1940s through the 1960s, sparked by the American folk music revival, young performers inspired by traditional folk music and groups like the Almanac Singers and The Weavers began writing and performing their own original material and creating their own musical arrangements.

Singers like Seeger and Guthrie would attend rallies for labor unions, and so wrote many songs concerning the life of the working classes, and social protest ; as did other folksingers like Josh White, Cisco Houston, Malvina Reynolds, Earl Robinson, Ewan MacColl, John Jacob Niles, and Doc Watson, while blues singers like Johnson and Hopkins wrote songs about their personal life experiences.

Other musical features of the Chautauqua included groups like the Jubilee Singers singing a mix of spirituals and popular tunes, and other singers and instrumental groups playing popular music, ballads and songs from the " old country ".

Singers like Wilson Pickett and Percy Sledge were especially popular, and inspired South African performers to enter the field with an organ, a bass-and-drum rhythm section and an electric guitar.

Artists like the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, The Swan Silvertones, Clara Ward Singers and Sensational Nightingales became stars across the country ; other early artists like Sam Cooke, Dionne Warwick, Dinah Washington, Johnnie Taylor, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett began their career in gospel quartets during this period, only to achieve even greater fame in the ' 60s as the pioneers of soul music, itself a secularized, R & B-influenced form of gospel.

Singers like Chava Alberstein, Yehoram Gaon and Naomi Shemer continued to write and perform songs in the canonical " Land of Israel " style.

Singers like Ustad Barkat Ali and many other singers in the past used to practice it, but due to the lack of historical records, many names are anonymous.

Singers like Jagjit Singh ( who first used a guitar in ghazals ), Ahmed and Mohammed Hussain, Hariharan, Mohammad Rafi, Pankaj Udhas and many others have been able to give a new shape to the ghazal by incorporating elements of Western music.

Artists and groups like the Samba Squad, Shadowland Theatre, Clay & Paper Theatre, EagleHeart Drummers and Singers, Spirit Wind, Gaa Dibaatjimat Ngashi, Tumivut Youth Shelter, Maracatu Nunca Antes, Darbazi Choir, Circle-Sing, Richard Underhill, the Befana Choir and the Kensington Horns participate in this event.

Singers like Naifaru Dohokko became famous through songs with bulbul music in the background.

and they were hounded by hostile reviews, exposure of their Communist ties and negative coverage in the New York press, like the headline " Commie Singers try to Infiltrate Radio ", They disbanded in late 1942 or early 1943.

The encounter and other short stories in the anthologies provides much deep background about human-treecat relations, and reveal, as explicitly stated in A Rising Thunder in exposition to the Haven delegation, the Treecat elders and society as a whole have effective recordings of their experiences with humanity through the offices of their Memory Singers, like Samantha, and further they confer planetwide about decisions regarding their relationships with humanity.

Calypso and spiritual-influenced vocal choirs, like the Emerald Isle Community Singers, are popular.

Helms presented top blues performers including Country Joe and The Fish ; Howlin ' Wolf ; Bo Diddley ; Muddy Waters ; Little Walter ; Buddy Guy ; Junior Wells ; the Paul Butterfield Blues Band ; Buddy Miles ; James Cotton Blues Band ; John Mayall ; Big Mama Thornton ; Albert Collins ; Steve Miller ( musician ); Mike Bloomfield ; Elvin Bishop ; Blues Project, with Al Kooper ; John Hammond ; Charlie Musselwhite ; Siegal Schwall ; rock bands like the Doors ; Buffalo Springfield ; the Byrds ; Bill Haley & His Comets ; The Kinks ; The Edwin Hawkins Singers ; the Animals ' Eric Burdon & War ; Mothers of Invention ); Lovin ' Spoonful ; The Carlos Santana Blues Band ; Sir Douglas Quintet ; the Soul Survivors ; the Fugs ; Blood, Sweat & Tears ; The Association ; Shorty Featuring Georgie Fame ; Iron Butterfly ; the Youngbloods, with Jesse Colin Young ; Vanilla Fudge ; Steppenwolf ( band ); Poco ; Love, with Arthur Lee ( musician ); sarode-player and Indian music teacher, Ali Akbar Khan ; Sandy Bull ; Blue Cheer ; the Leaves ; New Riders of the Purple Sage ; Barry McGuire ; Flamin ' Groovies ; the Loading Zone ; It's a Beautiful Day ; Joy of Cooking ; the Grass Roots ; the Sons of Adam ; Sons of Champlin ; Captain Beefheart ; the Electric Flag ; Son House ; Velvet Underground ; Pacific Gas and Electric ; Moby Grape ; the Sopwith Camel ; 13th Floor Elevators ; The Charlatans ( U. S. band ); Allmen Joy ( see http :// wingswest. net ); Mother Earth ; Southern Comfort ; The Ace of Cups ; Tyrannosaurus Rex ; Cleanliness and Godliness Skiffle Band ; Flying Burrito Brothers ; Congress of Love ; Notes From the Underground ; Chrome Circus ; Initial Shock ; Oxford Circle ; Daily Flash ; Electric Train ; Sparrow ; the Orchestra ; Hourglass ; Kaleidoscope ; Mt.

The performers associated with the Greenwich Village scene had sporadic mainstream success in the 1940s and 50s ; some, like Pete Seeger and the Almanac Singers, did well, but most were confined to local coffeehouses and other venues.

The record label was launched to promote European artists like Françoise Hardy, Raymond Lefevre, and the Barclay Singers.

From decades past, pioneer groups like Chuck Wagon Gang, The Cook Family Singers, The Happy Goodman Family, The LeFevres, The Lesters, Speer Family, The Rambos, and The Bill Gaither Trio paved the way for modern mixed quartets and family-based lineups such as The Crabb Family, Greater Vision, The Hinsons, The Hoppers, The Isaacs, Jeff and Sheri Easter, The Lewis Family, The Martins, The McKameys, The Perrys, The Perry Sisters, The Ruppes, The Talley Trio.

Singers like Manoella Torres, Francisco Céspedes, Dulce and Gualberto Castro performed several of José Jose's greatest hits.

Singers like Pete Seeger emerged, in groups like the Almanac Singers and The Weavers.

) Singers are then further classified by size – for instance, a soprano can be described as a lyric soprano, coloratura, soubrette, spinto, or dramatic soprano.

Singers of the coloratura soprano role of Zerbinetta have included, besides Gianna D ' Angelo, who sang it 7 times, Roberta Peters ( 7 appearances in 1963 – 4 ), Kathleen Battle ( 9 appearances in 1987 – 8 ), and Natalie Dessay ( 12 appearances: 7 in the fall of 1997 and 5 in the spring of 2003 ).

The King's Singers are credited with promoting interest in small-group a cappella performances in the 1960s.

Mr Judge's great innovation is to transform the Liebeslieder Singers from the evening-dressed, after-dinner line-up into 18th century ghosts weaving in and out of the action ... But Mr Judge's other great realisation is that, in Sondheim, the lyrics are not an adornment to a song but their very essence: understand them and the show will flow.

Singers may extend their repertoire using broadsheets, song books or CDs, but these secondary enhancements are of the same character as the primary songs experienced in the flesh.

Singers and the roles they play are classified by voice type, based on the tessitura, agility, power and timbre of their voices.

* Black Spirituals entered the concert repertoire with the tours of the Fisk College Jubilee Singers, and arrangements of such spirituals are now part of the standard choral repertoire.

Nicholas E. Tawa, in his 2005 book Supremely American: Popular Song in the 20th Century: Styles and Singers and What They Said About America, included Beefheart among the prominent progressive rock musicians of the 1960s and 70s, while the Encyclopædia Britannica describes Beefheart's songs as conveying " deep distrust of modern civilization, a yearning for ecological balance, and that belief that all animals in the wild are far superior to human beings.

Singers, painters, writers, theorists and other individuals employing a number of means of action have attempted to oppose or undermine consensus reality while others have declared that they are " ignoring " it.

The groups that are subdivisions of the critically acclaimed choir include the University Choir, which is over 140 voices strong, and The Morgan Singers ( approximately 40 voices ).

The Hutchinson Family Singers ( John, Asa, and Judson Hutchinson ) are credited with founding the town in November 1855.

In the vacation, services are sung by The Cathedral Singers of Christ Church ( Director John Padley )-a choir drawn from semi-professional singers in and around Oxford.

Singers should be thinking constantly about the kind of sound they are making and the kind of sensations they are feeling while they are singing.

Singers of raï are called cheb ( shabab, young ) as opposed to sheikh ( shaykh, old ), the name given to Chaabi singers.

" Round and Round " and the re-recording of " Unchained Melody " are with The Michael Sammes Singers

Singers and dancers from around the world are invited to take part in over 20 high quality competitions followed each evening by concerts where the best and most colourful competitors share the stage with professional artists.

Singers such as Billie Holiday all the way to Janis Joplin are said to have been inspired by Bessie Smith.

Singers who can handle the fast lyrics and are good improvisors are called guaracheros or guaracheras.

The Thursday Singers are made up of people from the local community, residents and those in work in the shops and businesses around the Cathedral, who simply enjoy singing.

* Priests are subdivided into two " courses :" " Sacrificators " and " Singers.

Singers who mix rock and pop elements with the traditional songs of the Land of Israel are usually achieving tremendous popularity and considered as leading acts in Israeli music today, singers such as Rita, Shlomo Artzi, Achinoam Nini, Ivri Lider, Aviv Gefen, Dana Berger, Evyatar Banai, Harel Skaat, Ninet Tayeb, Shiri Maimon, Dana International, Sharon Haziz, Mika Karni Roni Duani, David D ' or, Metropolin and many more.