Sentence examples for performing folk from inspiring English sources

Tavern concert series, Friday nights at 7 30 and 9, String Fever, a quintet performing folk, gospel and bluegrass.

A onetime hobo, he travelled the country collecting and performing folk songs and in 1927 published two hundred and eighty of them in "The American Songbag".

During the past couple of decades, he has worked as a writer and as an organizer, setting up homeless shelters in the Castro district and performing folk songs of his own invention.

During those Playboy years, Silverstein shuttled back and forth between Chicago and downtown New York; he frequented folk clubs and began making his own music — scribbling away songs on the back of cocktail napkins and tablecloths, performing folk and jazz numbers in a low, gravelly voice.

She started her performing folk music, after teaching herself to play classical guitar and eventually wound up honing her craft at the world-renowned Berklee School of Music.

She started her career performing folk music, after teaching herself to play classical guitar and eventually wound up honing her craft at the world-renowned Berklee School of Music.

Singing above vividly characterised accompaniments, conducted by Jamie Phillips, the British mezzo-soprano Christine Rice fell some way into the opera-singer trap of crooning when performing folk-style in her own language.

BAY SHORE Dr. King's Park Rebecca Hall and Ken Anderson perform folk music.

But she invited me to her studio, where she performed folk dances and meditations on classical Chinese dance.

The seven-member Russian choir Svetilen performs folk songs and Russian Orthodox church music in ethereal, close-harmony arrangements that hark back to ancient traditions.

He adopted the name Dylan, after the poet Dylan Thomas, and, drawn to the music of Woody Guthrie, began to perform folk music.