Definition of "folkies" [folkies]

• Plural form of folkie. (noun)

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• "Sunday's show is heavy on big-name folkies with Collins (mentioned above), festivals."
• "A couple years later, Lauren Agnelli's, Tom Goodkind's and Bruce Jay Paskow's The Washington Squares perfectly mimicked Peter, Paul & Mary with modest commercial success, though Tracy Chapman and Bruce Hornsby were the genre's least folkish, most successful, de facto champions, coming very close to the category with a "singer-songwriter" status (though one could never brand them as "folkies")."
• "Burlington's Rounder Records, a respected American roots music label started by three Cambridge "folkies" in 1970, has been acquired by a larger independent record company."