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The Hootenanny

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BANJO
The banjo has roots in West African stringed instruments brought to America; by the 19th century it had become central to American folk and minstrel music before finding its true home on the front porch.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
REFRAIN
The word refrain comes from the Old French refraindre, meaning to repeat, perfectly describing that irresistible line everyone seems to know before the song is even over.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
ROUND
"Row, Row, Row Your Boat" is one of the most recognized rounds in American folk tradition, a simple canon where each voice enters a beat or two behind the last, weaving into a full chord.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
HARMONY
Close-harmony singing, where voices stack just a third or a fifth apart, is a hallmark of Appalachian folk tradition and the shape-note singing schools that flourished in the rural American South.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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About The Hootenanny

A hootenanny is folk music at its most joyful and communal, guitars and banjos pulled from cases, voices finding harmony without rehearsal, and strangers becoming a chorus by the second verse. The tradition runs deep in American folk culture, from Appalachian front porches to the Greenwich Village coffeehouses of the 1960s where artists like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie made the singalong a kind of democratic art form. There is something quietly powerful about a circle of people who all know the refrain, clapping on the offbeat and leaning in when the round swells.

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    Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last. The trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
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