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Folk & Country

Acoustic guitars, stories and land: the roots music of folk and country.

Folk and country both centre on acoustic instruments and storytelling. The folk group runs from American singer-songwriters to Celtic and sea shanties; the country group from Nashville pop to Appalachian bluegrass. Chinese folk now sits under Chinese-language Music.

A wooden cabin porch at autumn dusk, an acoustic guitar beside a rocking chair, wheat fields and rolling hills beyond.
A cabin in an autumn forest at dusk, an original singer with acoustic guitar on the porch, a lantern and a dog.
Outside a small tavern on an old city street on a winter night, light snow under streetlights, a young person with a guitar on their back walking over the flagstones.
Green rolling hills by a stone cottage pub on a misty coast, original musicians with fiddle, whistle and bodhrán at the door.

What they share

  • Acoustic instruments
  • Storytelling lyrics
  • Tied to land and journeys

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