How to Use folk music in a Sentence

folk music

noun
  • The shop also hosts live folk music events.
    — Talia McWright, Twin Cities, 9 Apr. 2026
  • With the rise of rock and folk music and then K-pop, trot fell out of favor.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2023
  • It’s not meant to be any kind of overall summation of folk music.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Long before it was recorded, folk music served as a way to keep stories and ideas alive.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 17 Feb. 2026
  • On the main floor, enjoy some live jazz or folk music at the bar with oysters and cocktails.
    — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Jan. 2026
  • On the main floor, enjoy some live jazz or folk music at the bar with oysters and cocktails.
    — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Some critics deemed the set an act of heresy, an affront to folk music propriety.
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Jeannie’s fingers tapped the sideboard of the car in time to the folk music on the radio.
    — Jill Avery thomas Steenburgh, Harvard Business Review, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Likewise, today’s best folk music still confronts issues of race and class.
    — Adam Bradley Justin French, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Is this tied more closely to Japanese folk music?
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025
  • All these things influenced him — the idea of folk music and freedom of expression.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The program will also include folk music and music about flowers and bugs.
    — Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • There was jazz in there, and folk music and country; there was a lot of backwoods front-porch hootenanny.
    — Ty Burr, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Sounds of a folk music rehearsal drifted out of the church, down past a shrine and through the island’s seaside graveyard.
    — Hillary Richards, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2023
  • At Swann’s gatherings, guests donned women’s clothing or men’s suits and danced to folk music.
    — Cari Shane, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 June 2023
  • Cheerful folk music oompahs through the Heimatstube.
    — Kendra Atleework, Longreads, 12 Mar. 2026
  • There’s a scene when Bob dips into a bar to listen to some Irish folk music and a mini riot breaks out.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2024
  • But five years since their inception, Clay Street Unit are taking folk music by storm.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2026
  • And there’s a bit of a swing in Ives’s performance, too, thanks to his non-holiday background in folk music.
    — Justin Curto, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The link to the origins of American folk music made explicit.
    — Jeff Weiss, Spin, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Around the time Baez was born in 1941, folk music was starting to reach new audiences.
    — Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2023
  • He had been raised on some of the similar idioms and great nuances of English and Irish folk music.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2025
  • That road bump, thankfully, appears to have passed — the only remaining fear will be that felt by those who like their folk music squeaky clean and safe.
    — Aaron Davis, Sacramento Bee, 28 Jan. 2024
  • His score blends American folk music; the sounds of banjos and pianos along with orchestral strings.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 22 Dec. 2025
  • First being embraced into a family of folk music in New York and of course kind of outrunning him at.
    — EW.com, 24 July 2024
  • His music is so familiar to anyone who has grown up listening to folk music from the Global South.
    — Vrinda Jagota, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Once used by shepherds to call cows from the pastures, the long, conical instruments are now used in folk music, brought out for celebrations.
    — Lucy Kehoe, AFAR Media, 31 Oct. 2025
  • There was folk music, alt-rock, R&B, classic hip-hop, pedal-steel New Wave covers, and more.
    — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The album explores themes of grief, growth, and the continuation of folk music traditions.
    — Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
  • There’s a great conversation with Paul Nelson about the character of folk music.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025

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