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- noun Plural form of
folksinger .
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Examples
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There are still some proponents of blogging, and of traveling around the country as a multimedia event with two folksingers and a chicken-head-eating-geek, and of doing drive-by blitzes of every bookstore within a thousand miles.
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“His audience was an assemblage of nearly two hundred neo-Luddites and anarchists and socialists and freegans and steampunks and home-schoolers and folksingers and knitters and yak farmers.”
Archive 2009-02-01 Jean 2009
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There are still some proponents of blogging, and of traveling around the country as a multimedia event with two folksingers and a chicken-head-eating-geek, and of doing drive-by blitzes of every bookstore […]
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Israel was also rather obviously more successful under increasing capitalism, and demonstrated the need for a strong military, rather than more folksingers.
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This isn't to say that folksingers don't worry about the emotion of the song, but that they trust the lyrics to carry that emotion.
Archive 2008-03-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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It is the alchemy of record-making that fascinates Mr. Zak: the process, the product and even the residue, like the fact that "Irene" was penned "by a black Texas songwriter with a violent past, sung by a group of left-wing folksingers accompanied by a slick New York City studio orchestra playing a species of 1930s Broadway/Hollywood music."
Better Than the Real Thing? Eddie Dean 2010
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And then, as an aside, he pointed out that this is pretty much the opposite of what real folksingers do.
Archive 2008-03-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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This isn't to say that folksingers don't worry about the emotion of the song, but that they trust the lyrics to carry that emotion.
Girder and Panel Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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And then, as an aside, he pointed out that this is pretty much the opposite of what real folksingers do.
Girder and Panel Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Some of her songs and song lyrics for folksingers, rock groups and composers have been recorded and a number of her stories are about musicians.
Jane Yolen. 2009
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