ref History The AsatruFolkAssembly is a successor organization to a group called the Asatru Free Assembly founded by McNallen in 1974 and disbanded in 1986, splitting into the folkish satr Alliance and the universalist The Troth . The Asatru Free Assembly had been an outgrowth of a group called the Viking Brotherhood founded by McNallen together with Robert Stine in 1971. The defunct Asatru Free Assembly is sometimes distinguished from the modern AsatruFolkAssembly by the usage of old ... filed suit in U.S. District Court in Portland AsatruFolkAssembly v. United States to attempt ... location isbn 0 9720292 1 4 url External links http runestone.org AsatruFolkAssembly http www.runestone.com.ar AsatruFolkAssembly in Spanish Sitio Oficial en Espa ol Category satr in the United ... Category Germanic neopaganism Category Religious organizations established in 1994 es AsatruFolkAssembly it AsatruFolkAssembly ... Asatru Odinic Alliance . Goals According to the AFA Declaration of Purpose, its goals are The practice ... more details
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cleanup date December 2010 The Assembly were a synthpop project formed in 1983 in Basildon , England by Vince Clarke songwriter songwriting , keyboard instrument keyboards , backing vocalist backing vocals Eric Radcliffe songwriting, record producer production Feargal Sharkey was hired as a guest vocalist for the A side of the group s only single, Never Never . Clarke and Radcliffe had planned to use a different singer on each track the group recorded, ref name AMG Allmusic class artist id p173623 biography pure url yes Allmusic.com biography accessed July 2008 ref but the group disbanded after the release of Never Never , and no other vocalists were employed by the duo. Band history Clarke founded The Assembly shortly after disbanding Yazoo band Yazoo featuring singer vocalist Alison Moyet , upon completion and distribution of Yazoo s 1983 album , You and Me Both . Clarke s partner in The Assembly was Eric Radcliffe. The Assembly marked the most involved phase of Clarke s long term professional relationship with audio engineering sound engineer Radcliffe, who had contributed significant sonic influences to the sound recording and reproduction recordings of Clarke s previous bands, Depeche Mode and Yazoo. However, the Assembly project never became a full fledged band music band and resulted in only one single music single release, the United Kingdom UK hit record hit Never Never The Assembly song Never Never which featured a then cutting edge sampling music sampled guitar track ... phrase. Despite the commercial success of the single, The Assembly was no longer a functioning entity ... on the corresponding compilation album. Discography Never Never The Assembly song Never Never A side ... 10 5 page 31 ref See also The Tube TV series Casio VL 1 References reflist DEFAULTSORT Assembly, The Category ... from Basildon Category Mute Records artists de The Assembly es The Assembly fr The Assembly nl The Assembly pl The Assembly pt The Assembly fi The Assembly sv The Assembly ... more details
Infobox curler name Richard Dale Folk image image size 240 birth date birth date and age 1950 3 5 mf y birth place Saskatoon , Saskatchewan Curling club Kelowna Curling Club Kelowna CC , br Kelowna, British Columbia Skip Rick Folk Third Brian Windsor Second Dennis Graber Lead Randy Nelson Alternate Brier appearances 7 1978, 1979, 1980, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995 World Championship appearances 2 1980, 1994 Infobox Politician image only free content images are allowed for depicting living people see WP NONFREE name Richard Dale Folk small caption birth date March 5, 1950 birth place Saskatoon , Saskatchewan death date residence office1 Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan MLA for Saskatoon University term start1 1982 term end1 1986 predecessor1 first member successor1 Peter Prebble party Saskatchewan Progressive Conservative Party Progressive Conservative religion occupation Richard Dale Rick Folk born March 5, 1950 in Saskatoon , Saskatchewan is a Canada Canadian curler and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan . He is a two time world curling champion. In 1974, Folk skipped the Saskatchewan team to the Canadian Mixed Curling Championship that year. Four years later, he attended his first the Brier Brier , skipping the Saskatchewan team. In 1980, he won his first Brier ... Norway in the final. In 1983, Folk won another Canadian Mixed Championship. Folk ran in the riding of Saskatoon ... for the Saskatchewan Progressive Conservative Party . Folk won the seat, but lost it in the Saskatchewan ..., Folk moved to Kelowna , British Columbia . He represented British Columbia at the Brier for the first .... In 1995, Folk played in his last Brier. References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Folk, Rick ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Canadian politician DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1950 PLACE OF BIRTH Saskatoon , Saskatchewan DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Folk ... MLAs Category World curling champions Category Brier champions curling stub pl Rick Folk ... more details
wiktionary folkFolk may refer to a Germanic word for people, nation , see folk folklore , the body of verbal expressive culture among a particular population, comprising the oral tradition of that group folk art , art by traditionally trained, as opposed to academically trained, artists folk dance , a 19th century form of dance folk music or folksong , music by and of the common people. As a tv station Folk Plus , Folk music channel As a family name Bill Folk , Canadian ice hockey player Chad Folk , Canadian football player Elizabeth Folk , one of the Colchester Martyrs Eugene R. Folk , US American ophthalmologist Joseph W. Folk , US American lawyer, reformer, and politician Kevin Folk , Canadian curler Nick Folk , US American football player Rick Folk , Canadian curler Robert Folk , US American film composer other Folk Nation , an alliance of American street gangs list of species Animorphs F folk , a species from the fictional series Animorphs See also People Folkish disambiguation disambig cy Gwerin da Folk de Folk Begriffskl rung he no Folk nn Folk pt Folk desambigua o simple Folk sr Folk ... more details
Queer as Folk may refer to Queer as Folk UK TV series Queer as Folk UK TV series , 1999 2000 Queer as Folk 2000 TV series Queer as Folk 2000 TV series , a 2000 2005 American and Canadian version of the UK series Queer as Folk soundtracks Queer as Folk soundtracks , soundtrack albums from the North American series Disambiguation bg Queer as Folk ca Queer as Folk es Queer as Folk fr Queer as Folk gl Queer as Folk it Queer as Folk nl Queer as Folk pl Queer as Folk sh Queer as Folk sv Queer as Folk tr Queer as Folk zh ... more details
br Infobox Music genre bgcolor goldenrod color white name Turbo Folk stylistic origins Serbian folk Balkan folk , ref An umbrella term covering Balkan Serbian, Bulgarian, Albanian, Macedonian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Romanian, Greek, and Turkish music. ref Newly composed folk music , Arabesk music ... , argija , Fiddle , as well as other folk instruments popularity Mainstream popularity in ex ... culture Turbo folk is a musical sub genre that originated in the Balkans . Having mainstream popularity ... in Bosnia and Herzegovina , Croatia , Albania , Turkey and Montenegro . Its style is a sub genre of folk music with Dance music dance , Eurodance and or Pop music pop elements pop folk , dance pop etc ... , pop folk and Republic of Macedonia novokomponirana narodna muzika . Etymology The term turbo folk itself was coined by Rambo Amadeus , who used it jokingly during the late 1980s in order to describe ... concepts turbo , a way of injecting fuel into the engine and folk, a symbol of tradition ... be seen as a result of the urbanization of folk music. In its early times, it had a professional ... music, and other genres, which led to the emergence of turbo folk . Turbo folk Turbo Folk was conceived ... folk phenomenon left no musician immune to it. Later on, it became mainstream. File NoviBG Jan23 2005.jpg thumb left New Belgrade s Blok 62 at night blokovi Pre origin of turbo folk in its .... The owner of one such station was DJ W ICE who mixed folk songs with dance rhythms and broadcast them. Later he appeared in Zorica Brunclik s video, and then in other commercial folk performers videos. However, a few more years would pass before the term turbo folk made a comeback in earnest ... embargo many Serbian citizens sought solace in the escapist sounds of commercial folk music. Commercial turbo folk seemed to take its presentation up a notch in this period. Hedonism and a flip off attitude ..., if there is a single song that widely launched the turbo folk phenomenon, it would be 1994 s 200 ... more details
Folk theorem may refer to Ethno cultural studies of mathematics Mathematical folklore , theorems that are widely known to mathematicians but cannot be traced back to an individual In game theory, the folk theorem game theory folk theorem is a general feasibility theorem disambiguation Category Mathematical disambiguation ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Folk science describes ways of understanding and predicting the natural and social world, without the use of rigorous methodologies see Scientific method . One could label all understanding of nature predating the Greeks as folk science . Folk science is often accepted as common wisdom in a given culture, and gets passed on as meme s. According to some evolutionary psychology evolutionary psychologists , it may also reflect the output of evolved cognitive processes of the human mind which have been adapted in the course of human evolution . Scientific skepticism Skeptics often investigate the influence and validity of folk science. Some examples of folk science Na ve physics Folk biology Folk psychology Physiognomy See also Pseudoscience DEFAULTSORT Folk Science Category Philosophy of science ... more details
Orphan date November 2006 The Folk Project of New Jersey is a not for profit folk music , storytelling and dance organization which sponsors or organizes a wide variety of folk activities in the Northern New Jersey area. For more than 35 years, the Folk Project has promoted folk music through activities including the weekly http www.folkproject.org fp minstrel.html Minstrel Coffeehouse in Morristown, New Jersey Morristown the http www.folkproject.org fp swtern.html Swingin Tern contra dance in Chatham, New Jersey Chatham twice yearly folk festivals held at a camp in the woods of northwest New Jersey, monthly music parties held in members homes, occasional Special Concerts, the http www.folkproject.org fp storytelling.html New Jersey Storytelling Festival , and the cable TV show http www.folkproject.org fp folkTV.html ...Horses Sing None of it Local, national and international artists have been featured at Folk Project events, including luminaries such as the Tannehill Weavers, Richard Shindell , Bob Franke , Odetta , Christine Lavin , Roy Book Binder, Dave Van Ronk , U. Utah Phillips and many, many more. Folk Project members such as Mike Agranoff have performed at large folk festivals such as the Philadelphia Folk Festival and the Champlain Valley Festival in Vermont, and local and regional folk music venues too numerous to count. The Folk Project is an organization for people who love to hear or play music folk music in its broadest context, which may include rock and roll as well as traditional genres. Members are known as Projectiles. The Folk Project has been featured in articles in such publications as the Newark Star Ledger, the Bergen Record and Morristown Daily Record. External links The Folk Project can be found on the web at http www.folkproject.org. DEFAULTSORT Folk Project, The Category Non profit organizations based in the United States Category Music organizations based in the United States Category American folk music Category Contra dance music org stub ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Folk rhythm is a musical genre or style with roots in American folk music and rhythm and blues . It follows in the tradition of singer songwriters like Townes Van Zandt , Johnny Cash and Jack White musician Jack White but sounds uniquely contemporary. Literally, the term folk rhythm refers to the genre s roots in American culture and the oral tradition , hence, folk and the strum of guitar strings rather than fingerpicking , as in rhythm guitar . Category Music genres music genre stub ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2011 Fuzz folk is a variation of lo fi music that blends traditional folk rock and alternative rock , originating in the United States in the early 1990s. Bands embodying fuzz folk include Neutral Milk Hotel , The Olivia Tremor Control and the Microphones . The genre itself is heavily linked to the Elephant 6 musicians collective. The sound of fuzz folk can be described as off beat or downtempo music that embraces distortion pedals and other electronic engineering to create warm or fuzzy sounds. Uncategorized date December 2011 ... more details
Please do not remove or change this AfD message until the issue is settled Article for deletion dated page Folk Hop timestamp 20111229012255 year 2011 month December day 29 substed yes help off For administrator use only Old AfD multi page Folk Hop date 29 December 2011 result keep End of AfD message, feel free to edit beyond this point Infobox Music genre name Folk Hop bgcolor darkblue stylistic origins Please do not add unsourced genres. Hip hop Hip hop music Folk Soft rock Soul funk instruments Singing Vocals Acoustic Guitar Bass Guitar Drum Kit Drums color white cultural origins Mid to late 1990s, United States Folk Hop sometimes referred to as country rap is a music genre subgenre of Hip hop fusing instrumental elements of Folk sometimes country rap .There is Mexican Folk Hop Band out there today called Folk Hop not yet famous but highly popular in there Town. History Folk Hop originated from Country rap, a genre blending Folk music with hip hop music . Justin Smith & the Folk Hop Band or Folk Hop was a strong influence to Folk Hop. Zo trope Destruction Of A Rose Album also was a strong influence to Folk Hop. He also made an new album called Anime Eyes . Reference reflist 2 Folk music Subgenres and fusion genres of hip hop music Category Fusion music genres Category Hip hop genres Category Folk music ... more details
Infobox Music genre name Folk punk bgcolor goldenrod color white stylistic origins Celtic rock br Electric folk br Punk rock cultural origins mid 1980s United Kingdom instruments Electric guitar Acoustic ... Celtic punk br Gypsy punk br Anti folk br Indie folk other topics List of folk rock artists Folk punk known in its early days as rogue folk , ref P. Humphries, Meet on the Ledge, a History of Fairport Convention London Virgin Publishing Ltd, 2nd edn 1997 , pp. 149 50. ref is a fusion of folk music ... Femmes in America. Folk punk achieved some mainstream success in that decade. In more recent years ... and electric folk , folk punk tends to include relatively little traditional music in its repertoire. Most folk punk musicians perform their own compositions, often in the form of punk rock, but using additional folk instruments, such as mandolin s, accordion s, banjo s or violin s. ref name Sweers2005 B. Sweers, Electric Folk The Changing Face of English Traditional Music Oxford University Press, 2005 , pp. 197 8. ref Nevertheless, some folk punk bands have adopted traditional forms of folk music, including sea shanties and eastern European Gypsy music . History Folk punk was pioneered by the London ... folk singers, many performed with a punk sensibility, led to three top ten albums in the UK ... distinctively English brand of folk punk were The Men They Couldn t Hang , founded in 1984. Also .... ref name Sweers2005 Probably the most successful figure associated with English folk punk is singer ... of a wider rogue folk movement are bands like Edward II band Edward II , who mixed reggae with English folk music. ref http www.nme.com artists edward ii and the red hot polkas Edward II , NME Artists , retrieved 10 01 09. ref Pioneered by the Violent Femmes , American folk punk became a thriving genre ... is Freedom.jpg thumb right The anarchy heart, a symbol popular with some folk punks. It has been described ..., and Australia s Roaring Jack . ref G. Smith, Singing Australian a History of Folk and Country Music ... more details
Cleanup date June 2008 Infobox Music genre name Freak folk bgcolor goldenrod color white stylistic origins Psychedelic folk br Baroque pop br Avant garde music cultural origins Late 1960s United States instruments Acoustic guitar , Percussion instrument percussion popularity derivatives subgenrelist subgenres fusiongenres regional scenes other topics New Weird America Freak folk is a genre of folk music associated with contemporary artists such as Faun Fables , Animal Collective , Davenport band Davenport , Devendra Banhart , CocoRosie , Panda Bear musician Panda Bear , Kelli Ali , Joanna Newsom , Bowerbirds band Bowerbirds , Woods band Woods , Greg Weeks , Hecuba band Hecuba , Akron Family , Rio en Medio , Birdengine , Sufjan Stevens , Sean Hayes musician Sean Hayes , Carpa Koi italian artist and with artists of the 1960s and 1970s such as Vashti Bunyan , Holy Modal Rounders , The Godz NYC band The Godz , and The Fugs . Freak folk draws from traditional folk music and uses mainly acoustic instrumentation, but introduces elements of avant garde music , baroque pop and psychedelic folk , often featuring uncommon sounds, themes, and vocal styles. See also Anti folk Ptolemaic Terrascope a psychedelic folk & rock magazine New Weird America References reflist External links http www.sfgate.com cgi bin article.cgi?file gate archive 2005 04 14 derk.DTL Freak Folk Flies High by Derek Richardson at SFGate.com cite web last Hermes first Will title Summer of Love Redux publisher The New York Times date 2006 06 18 url http www.nytimes.com 2006 06 18 arts music 18herm.html?pagewanted all Poecke, N. van. http www.metamodernism.com 2011 01 06 the new weird generation ii The New Weird Generation Psychedelic music Folk music Category Music genres Category Psychedelic music Category New Weird America Category Contemporary folk subgenres Category Article Feedback 5 cs Freak folk nl Freakfolk sv Freak folk ... more details
Infobox Music genre bgcolor goldenrod color white name Anti folk stylistic origins Folk music , punk rock , avant garde music avant garde , folk punk cultural origins Mid 1980s United States . instruments guitar , bass guitar , drum s, piano popularity Underground Anti folk sometimes antifolk or unfolk is a music genre that takes the earnestness of politically charged 1960s folk music ref Allmusic ... folk are difficult to identify, as they vary from one artist to the next. Nonetheless, the music ... Anti folk in the US Anti folk was begun by artists unable to gain gigs at established folk venues in Greenwich Village , including Folk City and The Speakeasy. ref name Bessman1994 J. Bessman, Rising singer songwriters redefine folk in the 90s , Billboard Jul 16, 1994, vol. 106 29 , pp. 1 and 36 ... Side , after a booker at Folk City told him his music was too punk. ref name light http travel.nytimes.com ... York Folk Festival, so Lach dubbed his own event the New York Antifolk Festival. ref name light Other ... semi annually in the East Village long outlasting the original Folk Festival . Events have also ... folk movement at the Sacred Ground club. ref name Kihm1994 M. Kihm, A scene is made , New York Magazine Sep 12, 1994, vol. 27 36 , p. 70. ref Anti folk in the UK Unreferenced section date May 2011 In the 2000s ... 09. ref The UK anti folk scene largely centred in London , Manchester and Brighton has established its ... B magazine Plan B magazine. Plan B held an anti folk night at the Huw Stevens curated S n in Cardiff in November 2007. The beginnings of the UK anti folk scene were in London, with shows promoted by Sergeant Buzfuz that, although not billed as anti folk, featured many U.S. and UK anti folk singer ... Filthy Pedro started seasonal anti folk festivals, which he promoted with Tom Mayne of the band David Cronenberg s Wife . The Brighton anti folk scene was quick to follow Citation needed date November ... folk community include Dan Treacy of Television Personalities , JJ Crash , Milk Kan , Extradition Order ... more details
linkrot date June 2011 Refimprove date February 2008 Folk devil is a person or group of people who are portrayed in folklore or the mass media media as outsiders and deviant , and who are blamed for crime s or other sorts of social problems compare scapegoat . The pursuit of folk devils frequently intensifies into a mass movement that is called a moral panic . When a moral panic is in full swing, the folk devils are the subject of loosely organized but pervasive campaigns of hostility through gossip and the spreading of urban legend s. The mass media sometimes get in on the act or attempt to create new folk devils to create controversies. Sometimes the campaign against the folk devil influences a nation s politics and legislation . Concept The concept of the folk devil was introduced by sociology sociologist Stanley Cohen sociologist Stanley Cohen in 1972, in his study Folk Devils and Moral Panics , which analysed media controversies concerning Mods and Rockers in the United Kingdom of the 1960s. Historic and modern cases The basic pattern of agitations against folk devils can be seen in the history of witchhunt s and similar manias of persecution the histories of predominately Catholic and Protestant European countries present examples of adherents of the rival Western Christian faith as folk devils minorities and immigrants have often been seen as folk devils in the long history of anti Semitism , which frequently targets Jew s with allegations of dark, murderous practices, such as blood libel or the Roman persecution of Christians that blamed the military reverses suffered by the Roman Empire on the Christians abandonment of paganism . In modern times, political and religious leaders in many nations have sought to present atheists and secularists as deviant outsiders ... urged to unite in a war against atheists ref . The identification of folk devils may reflect the efforts of powerful institutions to displace social anxieties. References reflist DEFAULTSORT Folk ... more details
Urban folk may refer to Folk music from any urban cultural tradition as opposed to country music Anti folk music disambiguation Short pages monitor This long comment was added to the page to prevent it being listed on Special Shortpages. It and the accompanying monitoring template were generated via Template Longcomment. Please do not remove the monitor template without removing the comment as well. ... more details
of Prydain against him. It was mentioned by Doli in Taran Wanderer that the Fair Folk always honored .... At the conclusion of the series, following the downfall of Arawn, the Fair Folk retreat into their underground ... works of fantasy. The Fair Folk appear in the Disney animated film The Black Cauldron film ... Alexander s dwarf like description, the Disney Fair Folk more closely resemble the contemporary Victorian ... more details
Infobox Music genre name Country folk bgcolor brown color white stylistic origins Christian country music Country gospel , Southern gospel , folk music , progressive folk , Bluegrass music bluegrass cultural ... regional scenes other topics Country rock Folk rock Americana music Americana Neotraditional country Country folk is a hybrid sub genre of country music country and folk music closely associated with the singer songwriter and folk rock sub genres. It is generally characterized as a component of the progressive country style and has its roots in the recordings of folk artist Bob Dylan . ref name all Allmusic class explore id style d829 pure url yes Country Folk , Allmusic ref Style Country folk has been described as a mellower and gentler form of country music with more emphasis on song writing than vocals. Many of the artists described as country folk are respected more in mainstream ... and emotionally complex than mainstream country. ref name all History The term country folk is sometimes ... more specifically from the 1960s to describe the hybridization of American folk music with country music. Particularly in the early 1960s, folk musicians had been reinterpreting country songs and several country versions of folk songs, including those of Bob Dylan, had become part of the country music ... musicians like Charlie McCoy . The result has been judged to sound more folk than country, but Dylan ... mix of folk sensibilities and structures with country instrumentation and sounds. ref name Wolff2000 A number of folk artists now followed Dylan in going country , including Buffy Sainte Marie , who produced I m Gonna Be a Country Girl Again in 1968, and Ian and Sylvia s Nashville 1968 , while folk ... straddled the folk and country genres, most successfully Emmylou Harris and John Denver . ref name ... artists have been described as Country folk performers ref name all ref http www.rhapsody.com country country folk bluegrass country folk more.html Country Folk , rhapsody.com . ref Neil Young The Byrds ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 The Folk Sampler is a nationally syndicated NPR public radio NPR show, that showcases folk music folk , blues , & bluegrass music both modern and old. Since 1978, the host Mike Flynn NPR radio host Mike Flynn has been broadcasting his show from the foothills of the Ozarks. It was in 1982 that The Folk Sampler became syndicated by public radio . Each weeks show has a theme which all songs featured fit into either by release date or actual song theme. After selecting a theme for a show Mr Flynn has to work though over 6,000 record albums, 3,000 compact discs, and 2,000 cassettes. It s reported that he spends 15 20 hours a week preparing each show. DEFAULTSORT Folk Sampler, The Category National Public Radio programs ... more details
Infobox Music genre bgcolor black color white name Pop folk stylistic origins Music of Southeastern Europe Southeastern European Folk music cultural origins Individual folk music popularity flag Bulgaria br flag Serbia br flag Romania br flag Bosnia br flag Macedonia br flag Montenegro br flag Greece br flag Albania br flag Turkey br flag Croatia br flag Slovenia br flag Israel Citation needed date April 2011 br flag Ukraine Citation needed date May 2011 br flag Russia Citation needed date May 2011 br derivatives subgenrelist subgenres Laiko Chalga Manele Turbo Folk Arabesque Turkish music Arabesk regional scenes other topics Pop folk is the umbrella term for the popular musical genres originating in the Balkans and Eastern Europe that are characteristic by the fusion of commercial folk music and nightclub music. The term is used alternatively for Turbo folk and Chalga and is mostly used in Bulgaria . It is a sub genre of Balkan folk music. Laiko , originated in flag Greece Turbo folk , originated in flag Serbia Chalga , originated in flag Bulgaria Manele , originated in flag Romania Arabesque music Arabesque , originated in flag Turkey Tallava , originated in flag Albania See also Balkan pop Category Balkan music Category Pop music genres de Popfolk el es Pop folk sr tr Pop folk ... more details
Wikify date April 2010 Orphan date September 2008 Image Folk idol 2007 john smith.jpg thumb Folk Idol 2007 Folk Idol , a tongue in cheek take on the Pop Idol franchise, is an annual live event in London run by music promotion agency The Local. Contestants are required to wear a beard and play covers of two folk music folk songs , after which they are judged by a panel of experts. Judges points are combined with audience applause to get the final score for each participant. The first folk idol was covered on BBC Radio 4 s Today programme. ref http www.bbc.co.uk radio4 today listenagain zsaturday 20061216.shtml www.bbc.co.uk radio 4 Dead link date February 2011 ref Previous winners include Emma Tricca, John Smith and Left with Pictures, with contestants including Congregation, RG Morrisson, Annie Windley, The Straw Bear Band, brody & quint, and Candythief. References Reflist DEFAULTSORT Folk Idol Category Music competitions ... more details
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