noun
- informal gatherings featuring folk music performances, often with audience participation
Usage: informal; plural of hootenanny
Examples
- The coffee shop hosts hootenannies every Friday night.
- Local musicians organized hootenannies to celebrate the harvest festival.
- She learned to play guitar by attending neighborhood hootenannies.
- The college campus was famous for its weekly hootenannies in the 1960s.
- Hootenannies often feature acoustic instruments and traditional songs.
- The community center’s hootenannies bring together singers of all ages.