Sentences with phrase «folks singer»
A "folks singer" refers to a musician or singer who performs and sings songs that are related to the cultural heritage and stories of a particular community or group of people. Full definition
I had just graduated with a teaching degree and a fierce determination to be a famous folk singer.
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Sci - fi's green revolution began with the lyrical strains of folk singer Joan Baez, and the impressive orchestral music of her sometime arranger Peter Schickele (better known under the name of his classical novelty act «P.D.Q. Bach») with 1972's «Silent Running.»
This quiet, eccentric and thoroughly brilliant Coen brothers» drama is set in Greenwich Village on the eve of Bob Dylan's arrival and stars the excellent Oscar Issac as Llewyn Davis, a struggling folk singer who sleeps on other people's sofas, who's always getting in trouble with women and is fast running out of friends.
Oscar Isaac garnered attention playing a down - on - his - luck folk singer in the movie Inside Llewyn Davis.
Remarkably, this part of the plot is based on a true story, as folk singer Steve Tilston received a letter from John Lennon, 34 years after Lennon wrote it in 1971.
Other Earth Day activities at Spring Brook Nature Center include sidewalk chalk drawing sessions for children and entertainment by folk singer Mark Dvorak from 12:30 until 2 p.m. Visitors are invited to bring picnic lunches and eat on the grounds of the center, which is operated by the Village of Itasca in cooperation with the Itasca School District and Itasca Park District.
Like much of their work, the latest from Coen brothers Joel and Ethan is a comedy of errors with darker, deeper undertones, this time grounded in an 1960s folk singer with talent to spare but burdened with unrealised opportunities.
And it would have been great to see Oscar Isaac sneak into the crowded best - actor race as a struggling folk singer in 1960s New York.
The film rightly gives much attention to the Cree - Canadian folk singer Buffy Sainte - Marie, who discusses the banning of her song Universal Soldier in the early 1960s, and how things have changed since then and how things have not.
In his directing debut, Cameron Crowe crafts some wonderful young characters, like the earnest mature lovers played by John Cusack and Ione Skye and the lovelorn folk singer played by Lili Taylor.
Several recent cases brought by celebrities have effectively created a new privacy law in the U.K. And recently, the House of Lords upheld a landmark ruling barring the friend of a well - known folk singer from publishing certain passages of a tell - all book about the celebrity.»
After years of supporting roles, the Juilliard - trained actor takes centerstage as the hard - luck folk singer at the center of Joel and Ethan Coen's new movie.
Dr King is also accused in the files as having links to the Communist Party, setting up a «tax dodge» with his Southern Christian Leadership Conference organisation and having affairs with at least four women, including folk singer Joan Baez.
The directing duo transforms Greenwich Village into a 1960s haven for folk singers in this look at their latest period comedy.
The current record is held by a blind Turkish folk singer named Metin Senturk, who drove a Ferrari F430 Scuderia at 182.03 mph.
Joel and Ethan Coen are writing and directing this drama about a New York folk singer trying to survive in the 1960s.
The bridge has had other lawmakers introduce bills naming after Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt or the late folk singer Pete Seeger.
In 1991, a young musician named Jeff Buckley rehearses for his public singing debut at a Brooklyn tribute show for his father, the late folk singer Tim Buckley.
Before we know anything about Llewyn Davis, the rising folk singer at the center of Joel and Ethan Coen's superb new film «Inside Llewyn Davis,» we see him singing on stage.
They based the film loosely on the life of folk singer Dave Van Ronk, the self - proclaimed «Mayor of MacDougal Street,» who championed Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell as they began their careers.
• The man in question is Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac), a 1961 Greenwich Village folk singer who'd found some success with his partner, Mike Timlin.
In Monte Hellman's hypnotic road movie Two - Lane Blacktop, folk singer James Taylor gives a lead performance that is both unassuming and arresting, the kind of askew, unshowy, vanity - free acting that perhaps only a nonprofessional actor is capable of.
The LP — released on vinyl by White Columns, Algus Greenspon, House of Gaga, and the Green Gallery — consists primarily of covers of the titular British folk singer, who was prominent during the British folk revival of the 1960s and 1970s.
HE had to apologise after saying in a Commons debate that «the idea of listening to three Somerset folk singers sounds like hell».
The temptation to apply the adjective «plastic» to the whole of EuroDisneyland, in the sense used by 1960s folk singers, is irresistible.
The latest lawsuit was filed Friday by Melissa Ferrick, the Massachusetts - based indie folk singer who teaches at the prestigious Berklee College of Music and rose to prominence as Morrissey's last - minute opening act on his 1991 tour.
The two men share a last name but otherwise come from different worlds: Raju Pariyar, a popular folk singer known as «the Justin Bieber of Nepal,» and Bishnu Pariyar, a Christian pastor who runs a children's ministry and orphanage in the tourist city of Bharatpur in the Himalayan country.
Local performers featured on the music stage are folk singer Mark Dvorak of Brookfield, magician Tim Balstar of Chicago and comedian Ken Schultz of Chicago.
Only 14.7 % favored the Mario Cuomo option and 3.9 % wanted the bridge named after folk singer Pete Seeger.
In the midst of the dust bowl era, famed folk singer Woody Guthrie purchased a pamphlet from the USDA entitled «The Use of Adobe or Sun - Dried Brick for Farm Building.»
About Site - Santa Fe folk singer Al Acuff shares his thoughts on subjects ranging from acoustic guitar amplification to songwriting and performing.
About Blog Santa Fe folk singer Al Acuff shares his thoughts on subjects ranging from acoustic guitar amplification to songwriting and performing.
Layering the life of Irish folk singer Joe Heaney through a flickering lens and leaning on the natural, unadorned voice of the sean nos [old style] singer, this doc / feature hybrid film isn't perfect, but it is quite perfectly - made.
Down - on - his - luck folk singer Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac), the film's ungracious, self - regarding anti-hero, was too much for some.
He'll have to travel faster than 182.03 mph, the current record set by Metin Senturk, a Turkish folk singer, in a Ferrari 430 Scuderia.
It was written by Nobuo Uematsu and Kazushige Nojima and was sung by Japanese folk singer Ritsuki Nakano, known as «Rikki», whom the music team contacted while searching for a singer whose music reflected an Okinawan atmosphere.
The theme song for the game is titled «Suteki da ne», which was performed by Japanese folk singer Ritsuki Nakano, known as «RIKKI».
We are pleased to announce Tate's acquisition from England & Co of Cecilia Vicuña's 1973 painting of the Chilean folk singer, poet, artist and social activist, Violeta Parra.
(News) Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); November 1, 2002; 377 words Folk - singers HE had to apologise after saying in a Commons debate that «the idea of listening to three Somerset folk singers sounds like hell British hotels HE says they fall short of Continental standards and charge too much for extras like making phone calls.
Also just announced are award - winning folk singer Sam Lee; counter-cultural writer Stewart Home, experimental composer and saxophonist John Butcher; theatre director, choreographer and designer Simon Vincenzi; artist, writer and artistic director of cult experimental theatre company Forced Entertainment Tim Etchells, text, song, sculpture, film and performance - maker Hilary Koob - Sassen and live documentation from LuckyPDF.
May 9, 2017 • Los Angeles - based folk singer Azniv Korkejian says her new song, with its melancholic, orchestrated arrangement, is «a rejection of conventional romance; it's not something that I needed.»
Think artsy folk singers and splattered painters are the legit opposite of whatever serious business you're trying to get done?
In the 1960s, the recently deceased folk singer pioneered the movement to clean up the Hudson River.