folk music | folk | Folk music | folk rock | ballad | Queer as Folk | folk art | Folk | American folk music | American Folk Art Museum | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby | Anthology of American Folk Music | Queer as Folk (North American TV series) | Newport Folk Festival | Roud Folk Song Index | American folk music revival | Modern Folk Quartet | Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony | Woodford Folk Festival | The Ballad of Cable Hogue | Mexican handcrafts and folk art | Gerde's Folk City | Folk music of Ireland | folk high school | The Souls of Black Folk | Poor Folk | Philadelphia Folk Festival | Mariposa Folk Festival | Lenore (ballad) | Folk rock |
His shows typically combine his singing of Irish or Scots folk ballads, such as The Belle of Belfast City or Whiskey in the Jar, a poetic recitation and a Celtic drum performance.
"Leaving of Liverpool", (Roud 9435), also known as "Fare Thee Well, My Own True Love", is a folk ballad, a popular and wistful song.
In music, "Caledonia" is a popular folk ballad written by Dougie MacLean in 1977 and published in 1979 on an album of the same name; it has since been covered by various other artists, including Amy Macdonald.
One of his folk ballads, featured on his Much to Share, Dancing Dakota, and Dakota Breezes CDs, is The Story of Hazel Miner. The folk ballad tells the story of Hazel Miner, a 15-year-old girl who died saving her brother and sister during a March 1920 blizzard in Center, North Dakota.
The lyrics of "La raccolta" ("The harvesting") are taken from a poem by Sappho, while the music is from the Rumanian folk ballad "M-am suit in dealul clujului".
Fields of Athenry is an Irish folk ballad (written in 1970 by Pete St. John) which has been covered by many other bands such as Dropkick Murphys or The Dubliners.
On its first anniversary, Sony Pictures Animation announced a full slate of animated projects in development: Open Season, an adaptation of a Celtic folk ballad Tam Lin, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Surf's Up, and a feature length version of the short film The ChubbChubbs!.
Dylan based "Walls of Red Wing" off of the traditional Scottish folk ballad "The Road and the Miles to Dundee", which he may have learned during his trip to London in early 1963, from other aspiring folk singers, such as Martin Carthy.