In 1934, when she was 20, she joined a company called Theatre of Action, founded by Ewan MacColl, a folk singer she later married.
She knew a lot of folk remedies and could easily have helped me recover in a day or two, but she would have kept me in bed for a few days longer to insure that I recuperated fully.
Jaymay has been called a folk artist and she cites Bob Dylan among her influences.
In the '60s, she recorded everything from Israeli folk songs to spirituals to covers of Ellington and Jacques Brel.
She has said in interviews that she had wanted to make a folk album.
T-shirt and jeans, against a dormitory wall bedecked with psychedelic posters, bears out her recollection that she resembled Joan Baez, a folk-singer.
Jaymay's move to the UK should build her already established anti-folk fan base since she will support Teddy Thompson, Nouvelle Vague and The Bird and The Bee on their respective UK tours.
She moved to London to work the 'alt-folk' and singer-songwriter circuits, although in a fairly unfolky manner she's attracted the attention of Bauhaus's Peter Murphy and Mike Mason of Swallow (1990s 4AD act), who both speak highly of her.
She is keener to woo the tribal folk encroaching on the tigers' shrinking forests.
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The daughter of folk singer Ewan MacColl, she is best known for her 1987 Christmas hit with The Pogues, Fairytale of New York, and the hit single There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis.
Srowing up, she says she saw plenty of women playing guitar in folk and rock groups, but little in the way of jazz guitar.
Elena Piskunova likes to sing melancholic Russian folk songs in traffic jams - she claims it's the best way to relax muscles and relieve stress.
It sounds very conventional satire but Ms Schoenle thrusts steel into her tale as she sends up the empty world of media folk addicted to sensation and lifestyle.
It is a fear she has conquered, and over the past decade she won a string of awards including BBC Radio 2 Folk Singer of the Year in 2008.
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Though Doiron's music contains folk elements appropriate for such a sleepy, romantic backdrop, she also takes the time to crank the volume on an electric guitar.
She says New York's best music scene - called anti-folk and comprising singer-songwriters who perform informally - did not get covered by the NME's recent cover story about the city.
But with the reissue of "Diamond Day" 30 years later, she suddenly found herself being praised as an icon in a revised history of British folk music.
She will visit World Heritage Sites in Suzhou, where the World Heritage Institute of Training and Research is based, and Hangzhou, where she will give the Mayor a certificate nominating it as a UNESCO City of Crafts and Folk Art.
She has pretty much carved out a music career single-handedly, becoming something of a darling of the folk-bluegrass-country set.
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