Canadian country-folk singer Tom Connors has died of natural causes age 77, his promoter has said.
Gaelic folk singer Julie Fowlis says she used to be "terrified" of singing solo in public.
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The instrumentation is full and Jaymay's voice is out front as opposed to the withdrawn minimalism of current art-folk singer-songwriters.
Bill Murlin is a folk singer and former Bonneville employee who took a special interest in Guthrie's time with the agency.
Musician Chris Wood took home the album of the year prize for Trespasser and was named folk singer of the year.
One military official once said the folk singer "does more damage with some songs than with 100 machine guns, " he said.
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In 1934, when she was 20, she joined a company called Theatre of Action, founded by Ewan MacColl, a folk singer she later married.
Otherwise a poet, writer and folk singer at the local radio station, Santosh has been brought in for her expertise in the local Bundelkhandi cuisine.
It will take Hamlet, All's Well That Ends Well and As You Like It, the score for which is being composed by folk singer Laura Marling.
The teenage folk singer played a tour of UK churches earlier in the year and her set on the Park stage at Glastonbury was a genuine highlight.
With bare-bones arrangements and Simone's powerful, poignant vocals at the forefront, the record burns through a collection of songs by Siberian punk-folk singer, Yanka Dyagileva, with cathartic fervor.
Musician Nic Jones, whose career appeared to have ended after a car crash in 1982, has won folk singer of the year at BBC Radio 2's folk awards.
The "fake journalists" said they were travelling to Nicaragua to cover the high-profile of trial of suspects in the killing of Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral last year.
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The band's early attempts to conquer the US market were nearly thwarted by American folk singer Suzanne DeBronkart who had recorded under the name Suede and held the trademark.
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It is a fear she has conquered, and over the past decade she won a string of awards including BBC Radio 2 Folk Singer of the Year in 2008.
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Among the nominees are noted "vloggers" Paul Robinett (Renetto), British pensioner Peter Oakley, up-and-coming folk singer Terra Naomi, Star Wars parody Chad Vader, actress-turned-teenager Lonely Girl 15, and comic commentator LisaNova (Lisa Donovan).
Alt-folk singer-songwriter Sean Hayes may not have generated much name recognition beyond the San Francisco area, where his early acoustic performances provided a welcome and humanizing respite from the tech-utopian music scene of the mid-'90s.
The daughter of folk singer Ewan MacColl, she is best known for her 1987 Christmas hit with The Pogues, Fairytale of New York, and the hit single There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis.
NPR's Neda Ulaby reports on Nora Guthrie's unlikely selection for the latest anointed artist a German cabaret star and former clown, and the first non-English speaker given full access to the famed folk singer's huge archive of songs.
The dispute centred on how much U.S. company Ludlow Music should earn in revenues for allowing Williams and his record company to borrow from late U.S. folk singer Woody Guthrie's 1961 song "I am the Way, " whose copyright it owns.
T-shirt and jeans, against a dormitory wall bedecked with psychedelic posters, bears out her recollection that she resembled Joan Baez, a folk-singer.
That doesn't mean the traditional folk and country singer hasn't been busy.
An up-and-coming folk-rock singer-songwriter who crafts brooding, timeless, sophisticated pop songs, Elvis Perkins has earned lofty comparisons to the likes of Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan.
She says New York's best music scene - called anti-folk and comprising singer-songwriters who perform informally - did not get covered by the NME's recent cover story about the city.
She moved to London to work the 'alt-folk' and singer-songwriter circuits, although in a fairly unfolky manner she's attracted the attention of Bauhaus's Peter Murphy and Mike Mason of Swallow (1990s 4AD act), who both speak highly of her.
The record's opening track, "Oviedo, " features an accordion drone accompanying Nebeker's doubled vocals, but with orchestration that never takes away from the group's simple, singer-songwriter folk sound.
The folk-pop outfit, formed by singer-guitarist Israel Nebeker and drummer Ryan Dobrowski, has taken two bike tours, playing its music all along the West Coast.
Imagine a singer-songwriter with a lilting folk-rock style covering the songs of alternative rockers.
One album I completely missed when it came out last year was the self-titled debut release from Martha Wainwright, the sister of cabaret-pop singer Rufus Wainwright and daughter of folk artists Loudon Wainwright and Kate McGarrigle.
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