How to Use folk singer in a Sentence

folk singer

noun
  • Yarrow was known to perform with his daughter, a folk singer and activist in her own right.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Maybe being a folk singer is what has been his long enduring legacy.
    — David Chiu, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Paired with a bushy, untamed beard, the look is very '70s folk singer—only shinier.
    — Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 4 Feb. 2018
  • All the folk singers on Bleecker Street learned their set from that album.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2023
  • Barry is the kind of folk singer who writes about jumping trains and snorting methamphetamine.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 23 June 2018
  • Not to be confused with the folk singer of the same name, this Jewel is a real gem.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Not by Guthrie, of course — the legendary folk singer has been dead almost 60 years.
    — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 26 June 2026
  • But Baez is still a folk singer and political activist at heart.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Denyes is a folk singer and songwriter who writes songs that make children laugh, think, sing, dance, clap and stomp their feet.
    — Ramona Sentinel, 5 June 2019
  • The cause was liver cancer, said his daughter, Amy Fradon, a folk singer.
    — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
  • As folk singers and comics, the brothers conjured laughs and stirred controversy.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 27 Dec. 2023
  • My whole thing was to be the Dean Martin of folk singers, even though Dean didn’t drink that much.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
  • The shooting of a folk singer in a region north of Kabul contributed to such fears.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 30 Aug. 2021
  • The American folk singer Tim Hardin nearly joined up at one point.
    — David Renard, New York Times, 12 June 2018
  • The shooting of a folk singer in a tense region north of Kabul was bound to contribute to such fears.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2021
  • The award was presented for embodying the legacy of the legendary folk singer.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Eric Von Schmidt, another folk singer active at the time, once said.
    — New York Times, 19 May 2022
  • His action sparked others, including folk singer Joni Mitchell, to do the same.
    — Anne Steele, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Among the victims was Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers.
    — Jeff Suess, Cincinnati Enquirer, 22 Mar. 2026
  • When Odetta, the folk singer and civil-rights activist, appeared on the show, Cash sang a duet with her.
    — Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Blanton is a folk singer and songwriter who’s been self-releasing records and touring the country for the past decade.
    — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2025
  • But the feverish crowd, which hung onto every poignant lyric that came out of the indie-folk singer’s mouth, was feeling anything but.
    — Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • After all, here was this folk singer who was flying into the top ten with a Louvin Brothers song.
    — Chuck Dauphin, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2017
  • At the canvassing event, Ryan was joined by Paul Simon, the legendary folk singer.
    — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 24 Sep. 2022
  • The tragedy took 29 seamen’s lives and was made famous by folk singer Gordon Lightfoot.
    — cleveland, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Her second husband, the folk singer Len Chandler, died in 2023.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The folk singer Joan Baez was invited to play a version of Guthrie’s song for those in attendance.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The outlet added that Edward Norton will join the movie's cast as folk singer Pete Seeger.
    — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Mose Allison, the jazz singer, and Bob Dylan, who was then an almost-unknown folk singer.
    — Pete Townshend, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The Puebla, Mexico-born Báez was the father of folk singer Joan Báez.
    — Sandra Guzmán, USA Today, 29 June 2026

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