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Topic: UPCOMING TOPIC, DISCUSSION & SUGGESTIONS FOR MAY 2025 - FOLK

For the month for MAY, we are looking for DISCUSSION and SUGGESTIONS from you on FOLK music.

We are looking for is anything you want to share about FOLK music.  We want to hear your favourites or worst FOLK songs, why you like it or don`t like it.  Your favourite solo artist or band in the FOLK arena. Anything you can think of and want to discuss regarding FOLK music, we would love to hear it.

Feel free to share videos or links to anything FOLK that you want to share with us.

Hope to see some Original FOLK songs written by any of you and entered here so that when MAY comes, people have had time to practice them or attempt your original FOLK song and enter them when MAY FSOTM is up.

READY, SET, GO!!! 

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Re: UPCOMING TOPIC, DISCUSSION & SUGGESTIONS FOR MAY 2025 - FOLK

I was trying to think of some of my favorite folk artists and songs.   Honestly, the list is way too big.  So, to name just a few of them (and believe me there are lots I like), I thought of Cat Stephens, Gordon Lightfoot, Simon & Garfunkel, Neil Young (not all like his music I know), there are some awesome Irish Folk Songs too by different artists.  The Corrs are an Irish group, who do Folk-pop stuff that I like as well.     

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Re: UPCOMING TOPIC, DISCUSSION & SUGGESTIONS FOR MAY 2025 - FOLK

In my 20s a friend invited me to watch a touring folk group at our local YMCA. As he was a super guitarist he was their supporting act which is why I went. The stand out song he played was Bob Dylans tambourine man. The folk group came on later and their stand out was the song about a thresher which was quite dirty probably why I liked it! Also about 10 years ago I played an evening gig at a pub in Pembroke the afternoon act was a folk group, which I enjoyed but would never pull me back from the dark side of rock music.     

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Re: UPCOMING TOPIC, DISCUSSION & SUGGESTIONS FOR MAY 2025 - FOLK

Folk  music   is  very  popular  here   in the  Yorkshire  Dales    Our  drummer     Jim also    plays  with    a  folk  rock   band  called   Gaelforce   they  won a  competition   in 2023   and  havent  looked  back . He   is  currently  touring   in Portugal   with them   ,Its  messed   our   schedule  up  but  Paul  and  I  will  play  what  ever  gigs  we  have  booked  as  a  duo   until  he  is  available  again .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4YbirMZpdo     

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Re: UPCOMING TOPIC, DISCUSSION & SUGGESTIONS FOR MAY 2025 - FOLK

Heres  a  cover   of  a song  from    Ferocious  dog   who  are  a  popular   punk  folk  band   here  in the  UK https://youtu.be/BSg05tD1ElE?si=4x2K6rh47hgWAIGI     

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Re: UPCOMING TOPIC, DISCUSSION & SUGGESTIONS FOR MAY 2025 - FOLK

I've always been curious about what defines a "folk" song as opposed to a "pop song on acoustic guitar" - and it appears that it's generally an old

The term, Folk Song, originally meant songs that were so old that no one remembered who wrote them. It was pretty clear cut.

source 

However time has transmorgified the meaning, and it's now generally refers to an artist on an acoustic guitar, although when I went to the Wikipedia page on it, there was a whole different definition, including differing countries traditional and folk songs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_music

So, after that research ... I still don't know smile

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Re: UPCOMING TOPIC, DISCUSSION & SUGGESTIONS FOR MAY 2025 - FOLK

There seem to be a  lot of folk groups in NZ nowadays.
The ones ive seen are acoustic playing trad folk or folk rock, leaning toward bluegrass and amerciana or celtic
a real good mix of styles,but they seem to to generally call themselves folk     

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