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Both the Armenian and English versions of "Where Were You" are presented in one video. The song starts off in a relaxing, voice-over way before Sirusho unleashes her power in the chorus, holding those long, high notes and expressing the pain of the song, which overtly references the Armenian genocide in this, the centenary year of the tragedy.
Jesse Patrick Ferguson is a Canadian folk musician and poet. He was born in Cornwall, Ontario and has lived in Ottawa, Ontario, Fredericton, New Brunswick, and Sydney, Nova Scotia. He has produced 5 studio albums of folk music, [1] most recently Folk Favourites (2017). He performs music publicly in Ontario, Canada, and maintains a folk-music ...
A music platform, Gracenote, listed more than 2000 music genres (included by those created by ordinary music lovers, who are not involved within the music industry, these being said to be part of a 'folksonomy', i.e. a taxonomy created by non-experts).
Folk music can be classified into several subgenres: Baul: mainly inspired by Lalon and almost exclusively performed by Baul mystics. Bhandari: Devotional music from the South (mainly Chittagong). Bhatiali: Music of fishermen and boatman, almost always tied by a common ragas sung solo. Bhawaiya: Song of bullock-cart drivers of the North .
Musicians and dancer, Muromachi period Traditional Japanese music is the folk or traditional music of Japan. Japan's Ministry of Education classifies hōgaku (邦楽, lit. ' Japanese music ') as a category separate from other traditional forms of music, such as gagaku (court music) or shōmyō (Buddhist chanting), but most ethnomusicologists view hōgaku, in a broad sense, as the form from ...
The music of Bhutan is an integral part of its culture and plays a leading role in transmitting social values. Traditional Bhutanese music includes a spectrum of subgenres, ranging from folk to religious song and music. Some genres of traditional Bhutanese music intertwine vocals, instrumentation, and theatre and dance, while others are mainly ...
This type of folk music also includes fusion genres such as folk rock, folk metal, and others. While contemporary folk music is a genre generally distinct from traditional folk music, in U.S. English it shares the same name, and it often shares the same performers and venues as traditional folk music.
Boeremusiek (Afrikaans: ‘Boer music’ or 'Farmer's music') is a predominantly instrumental form of folk music that originated in South Africa.Initially intended to accompany informal social dancing, Boeremusiek developed through a fusion of European, African, and American musical traditions.