Ms. Kraus, a championship fiddler who mixes bluegrass and folk, sings with a tiny, almost birdlike voice.

Beck, the songwriter who mixes folk, rock and hip-hop, won awards for alternative rock album and male rock vocal.

Earle developed a hybrid style of music by mixing folk, blues and country.

Faun is a prime example of Mittelalter music, a German musical style mixing medieval folk and folk metal.

For three decades, Drever has produced a unique music sound, mixing traditional folk with some rock and roll sounds.

Mr. Furtado mixes Americana, folk, indie-rock, blues, and jazz styles.

Universal Recording Musician, Michael Barber, is best known for using the style mixing folk, rap, rock, country, and reggae.

Under his influence, however, they soon began to mix folk and rock, and are often regarded as the innovators of the folk/rock genre.

Over the years, they developed a unique musical style that mixes alternative rock, electronic music, reggae, dub and folk.

Still, the high chart-showing has to be a milestone for quartet that mixes folk, indie rock and electronic influences to come up with a sound all its own.