country music
nounDefinition of country music
: music derived from or imitating the folk style of the Southern U.S. or of the Western cowboy
especially
: popular vocal music characterized by simple harmonies, accompaniment by stringed instruments (such as guitar, fiddle, banjo, and pedal steel), repeated choruses, and often narrative lyrics
— called also country, country and western
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Boots on the Beach country fest Sunday at Newport Dunes Boots on the Beach, a country music festival, returns to the Newport Dunes Waterfront Resort on Sunday. — Daily Pilot, "Around Town: Civil War Days re-enactment returns to Huntington Beach," 29 Aug. 2019 In the movie, a country music star with a very country-music-star name, Laney Blu (played by Megan Hilty), returns to her Tennessee hometown for the first time in years, only to get stranded there by a freak snowstorm. — Megan Uy, House Beautiful, "Lifetime Has Announced Their Christmas Movie Schedule, And It Starts In October," 28 Aug. 2019 John Goodspeed writes about country music for the Express-News. — John Goodspeed, ExpressNews.com, "Fishing camp for grieving kids helps hurting little hearts," 22 Aug. 2019 The summer concert series sponsored by the city La Cañada Flintridge and held in Memorial Park is winding down, with the final two performances set for 6 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 25 (country music) and Sunday, Sept. 1 (Neil Diamond tribute). — La Cañada Valley Sun, "La Cañada area events," 20 Aug. 2019 An ex-con mom in Scotland strives to make her dream — becoming a country music star — a reality. — Maren Longbella, Twin Cities, "Everybody’s favorite web slinger is back, this week at the movies," 30 June 2019 But country music has never been better than when Miranda Lambert is making it. — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, "The greatest country music artist ever ... is not a dude," 14 June 2019 Tennessee Nashville: Add Glen Campbell to the list of late country music legends with a museum in their honor in the city’s downtown. — USA TODAY, "Smokey Bear, tarantula trek, censoring Adam and Eve: News from around our 50 states," 9 Aug. 2019 Not the 58 people killed and hundreds more injured at a country music festival in Las Vegas in 2017. — Karina Bland, azcentral, "No more talk: Why I'm out of words about mass shootings," 5 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'country music.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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