Their begging song might easily be a folk melody:

It won't be a `` tea '', however, but more of an international folk song festival, with singers from Chicago's foreign groups to sing Christmas songs from around the world.

* The story of Absalom is referred to several places in folk singer Adam Arcuragi's song " Always Almost Crying.

* The garage folk band David's Doldrums references Absalom in their song, " my name is Absalom.

The " Amarantos " is the name of a several-century-old popular Greek folk song:

*" Oh My Darling, Clementine " ( 1884 ) is an American western folk ballad believed to have been based on another song called Down by the River Liv'd a Maiden ( 1863 ).

*" Poor Paddy Works on the Railway " is a popular Irish and American folk song.

Like much of his mature work, it employs an idiosyncratic adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique that enables the composer to produce passages openly evoking tonality, including quotations from historical tonal music, such as a Bach chorale and a Carinthian folk song.

They both frequently quoted folk song melodies verbatim and wrote pieces derived entirely from authentic songs.

The Yiddish folk song Tumbalalaika mentions the instrument.

* List of folk song collections

:* Country Dance and Song Society ( CDSS ) preserves a variety of Anglo-American folk traditions in North America, including folk music, folk song, English country dance, contra dance and morris dance.

though in the classic traditional folk song, Dogie's Lament, also known as Git along little dogie, the " dogies " in question meant cattle strong enough to be herded from Texas to Wyoming, including weaners, yearling steers and other young, non-orphaned animals.

Jim Kerr of Simple Minds was so moved by the results of the Enniskillen bombing in 1987 that he wrote new words to the traditional folk song " She Moved Through The Fair " and the group recorded it with the name " Belfast Child ".

The terms folk music, folk song, and folk dance are comparatively recent expressions.

Today, almost every folk song that is recorded is credited with an arranger.

The distinction between " authentic " folk and national and popular song in general has always been loose, particularly in America and Germany-for example popular songwriters such as Stephen Foster could be termed " folk " in America.

Cecil Sharp had an influential idea about the process of folk variation: he felt that the competing variants of a traditional song would undergo a process akin to biological natural selection: only those new variants that were the most appealing to ordinary singers would be picked up by others and transmitted onward in time.

An Irish folk song, " Gallipoli ", written by the Fureys was also sung and recorded by many others.

In early seasons, the song was performed by Campbell and Tapp ( both with solemn looks on their faces ), in the vein of folk songs like " Oh!

Xylouris soon started performances in Athens, which became his new permanent residence, at the Konaki folk music hall.

Traditional music, however, which was at the root of these developments, is more often offered by local folk societies, such as Calliope: Pittsburgh Folk Music Society, Athens Folk Music and Dance Society, etc.

Simon showed Garfunkel a few songs that he had written in the folk style: " Sparrow ", " Bleecker Street ", and " He Was My Brother ", which was later dedicated to Andrew Goodman, a friend of both Simon and Garfunkel and a classmate of Simon's at Queens College, who was one of three civil rights workers murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, on June 21, 1964.

In January 1963 Parks learned to play the guitar ; upon dropping out of Carnegie Tech, he relocated to Los Angeles to play with his older brother Carson Parks ( writer of " Somethin ' Stupid ") as The Steeltown Two ( later enlarged to the Steeltown Three ), which eventually became the folk group The Greenwood County Singers.

One, widely regarded as a folk legend, and acknowledged as such by the Phelps County Historical Society, comes from competition with neighboring Dillon, Missouri to be designated the county seat.

" The Fields of Athenry " is an Irish folk ballad set during the Great Irish Famine ( 1845 – 1850 ) about a fictional man named Michael from near Athenry in County Galway who has been sentenced to transportation to Botany Bay, Australia, for stealing food for his starving family.

The County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California … had been home to folk, jazz and blues festivals for many years.

An example was the Conestoga Traction network in Lancaster County in Pennsylvania that delivered dairy farm milk to the Hershey chocolate factory in Hershey and brought rural folk and farm products into downtown Lancaster.

The Banat region in northern Serbia and western Romania ( Timiş County ) is a culture zone of Serbs and Romanians which can be seen in the culture ( folk attire, dance, music ) of the region.

The Leake County Revelers ' brand of folk music saw some national popularity late in the 1930s, at around the same time as Mississippi native Jimmie Rodgers innovated modern country music.

The contemporary folk song " On the Road to Fairfax County " by David Massengill, recorded by The Roches and by Joan Baez, recounts a romantic encounter between a highwayman and his female victim.

Cara Dillon ( born 21 July 1975 in Dungiven, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland ) is an Irish folk singer.

It reads, " A native of Warren County, Bryan was a pioneer in the study of American folk music.

Blood or Whiskey, an Irish punk / folk band from Leixlip, County Kildare, recorded it on their album " No Time To Explain ".

William " Liam " Clancy ( 2 September 1935 – 4 December 2009 ) ( Irish Liam Mac Fhlannchadha ) was an Irish folk singer and actor from Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary.

* June 3, 1981, Orange, USA: a bomb exploded in the Orange County Convention Center in Anaheim, the scheduled site of a Turkish folk dance and music show, causing extensive damage.

The Noel Redding Band ( also known as The Clonakilty Cowboys, after the title of their debut album ) were an Irish folk rock supergroup that formed in Clonakilty, County Cork in 1972.

It was also notable because some detainees created more than ten thousand folk art sculptures now known as 3d origami from folded paper, papier-mâché, and recycled materials while in York County Prison ; these were later exhibited throughout the U. S.

Dr. Strangely Strange were an experimental Irish folk group, formed in Dublin in 1967 by Tim Booth ( born 6 September 1943, County Kildare, Ireland ), vocals and guitar, and Ivan Pawle ( born 17 August 1943, England ) bass and keyboards.

Born in Blädinge, Alvesta Municipality, Kronoberg County as the son of a farmer, Vennberg studied at Lund University and in Stockholm and worked as a teacher of Norwegian in a Stockholm folk high school.

* Daeipsul () is another traditional folk wine from Damyang County, South Jeolla Province, made from glutinous rice, brown rice, and bamboo leaves, along with ten medicinal herbs.

The name was confined to songs, poems, folk memory and some antiquarian titles until a re-organization of local government in the 1990s set up Fingal and Fingal County Council.

Bascom Lamar Lunsford was born at Mars Hill, Madison County, North Carolina in 1882, into the world of traditional Appalachian folk music.

Sean McCarthy ( 1923 – 1990 ), a Finuge, County Kerry, Ireland native, was an Irish folk song writer.

Tom Dula ( made famous by the folk song " Tom Dooley ") hid out in Trade as he was on the run, suspected of having murdered his young fiancee in Wilkes County, North Carolina.