But the mood among Japanese financial and business folk has noticeably improved since the spring.
Wimborne resident James Marshall has set up a Save the Wimborne Folk Festival Facebook page which has attracted more than 1, 000 supporters.
His sense of curiosity has driven him to experiment from everything from the Argentine tango to Chinese folk music, and he has brought musicians from around the world together with the sheer force of his personality.
Waits' place in the folk tradition is something he has acknowledged, consciously or otherwise, in his music.
This makes some folk wonder if the firm has enough resources to launch on so many fronts in so little time, and if it might have to divert resources from other products, such as Zyprexa, its blockbuster drug for schizophrenia, thus leaving them more vulnerable to competition.
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"From the Ground Up" (Blue Dirt), the debut album by 24-year-old John Fullbright, is a stellar collection of folk and Americana that already has the feel of a classic.
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This infiltration of folk medicine into the modern world has reached all levels of medicine and academia.
The area has beautiful walks, plus there is a small folk museum in the village with a local historical collection.
Finnish heavy metal has a global reputation, but more recently Finnish folk music has been snapping its heels on the international stage.
But in recent years the movement has pushed beyond its anarchist roots, drawing in old folk and corporate executives as well as the usual kids.
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Musician Nic Jones, whose career appeared to have ended after a car crash in 1982, has won folk singer of the year at BBC Radio 2's folk awards.
Oddly, one of the most fraught has to do with the home secretary's traditional power to keep undesirable folk out of the country.
"Competition among business divisions" over which one had the "youngest" receivables "has stimulated the posting of memo entries in advance of actuals, " Folk, the revenue operations chief, wrote in a 1997 e-mail quoted in a lawsuit later filed by an MCI partner.
As well as the aforementioned Sting, Knopfler and Ferry, the campaign has the support of Angel sculptor Antony Gormley, Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant, folk musician Kathryn Tickell, actors Alun Armstrong and Robson Green and Auf Wiedersehen Pet trio Tim Healy, Jimmy Nail and Kevin Whately.
Otherwise a poet, writer and folk singer at the local radio station, Santosh has been brought in for her expertise in the local Bundelkhandi cuisine.
This has sharpened the anxiety among some City folk that the Asian upstarts will not only capture the lion's share of the fast-growing demand for finance on their doorstep, but will also take a big bite out of London's established businesses.
That's something that has continued - that folk process, the folk tradition - through all of Bob Dylan's work.
With a voice suitable for both rock and folk, he has a natural flair for the delivery of the latter.
The problem with being a folk hero is that your public image has to be clear and simple.
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Folk musician Charlie Landsborough, who has performed at the theatre many times, said it would be sadly missed.
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The 20th-century flowering of Third World "folk arts" has been driven largely by Western demands, materials and technologies of production.
Regular folk having a brush with fame has already been the subject of Craig Lucas' gentle comedy "The Lying Lesson, " in which a mysterious woman who visits a Maine town turns out to be Bette Davis.
David Lang has been specially commissioned to arrange the traditional North East folk tune for orchestra.
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Zipes, a professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota, has written sixty books on or of folk tales: critical studies, collections, translations.
"The charity has been great - getting together with a lot of folk with head injuries and talking to them has helped get my speech back, " he said.
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The rich repertoire of songs and scores preserves ancient folk music and poems and has influenced opera, puppet theatre and other performing art traditions.
Just tossing around ideas on anything nuclear with an NGO in the room has already proved a culture shock for Britain's secretive nuclear folk.
From her beginnings on the Northeast folk scene to her present career as a nationally renowned performer, Larkin has spent two decades mixing thoughtful lyrics with an instrumental artistry rooted in a variety of formal training.
Although it is proud of having converted Cat Stevens, a British folk-rocker now known as Yusuf Islam, to the faith, Tablighi has no ledgers, no office holders, no funds and no orthodox means of public relations, claims Malik Mumtaz, one of its elders.
MoMA has released few details on its plans for the structure to replace the folk-art building.
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