Difference between Folk Singer and Minstrel

FOLK SINGER vs MINSTREL: NOUN

One of a troupe of entertainers who wore black makeup (blackface) to present a variety show of song, dance and banjo music; now considered racist.
A medieval traveling entertainer who would sing and recite poetry, often to his own musical accompaniment.
In the Middle Ages, one of an order of men who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang verses to the accompaniment of a harp or other instrument; in modern times, a poet; a bard; a singer and harper; a musician.
Hence Any poet or musician. [Poetical.]3, Originally, one of a class of singers of negro melodies and delineators of life on the Southern plantations which originated in the United States about 1830: called negro minstrels, although they are usually white men whose faces and hands are blackened with burnt cork.
A musician, especially one who sings or recites to the accompaniment of instruments.
A musician.
A lyric poet.
A medieval entertainer who traveled from place to place, especially to sing and recite poetry.
A singer of folk songs
A performer in a minstrel show

Songstress, Sirvente, Songster, Bob dylan, Balladeer, Songwriter, Singer, Trouveur, Minnesinger, Singeress, Folksinger, Jongleur, Poet singer, Minstrel, Troubadour

Jester, Banjo, Songster, Troupe, Mummer, Ragtime, Hillbilly, Vaudeville, Minstrelsy, Bard, Blackface, Poet singer, Jongleur, Folk singer, Troubadour

Crooner, Musician, Songstress, Sirvente, Songster, Bob dylan, Balladeer, Songwriter, Singer, Trouveur, Minnesinger, Singeress, Folksinger, Minstrel, Troubadour

Clown, Cabaret, Fiddler, Jester, Songster, Troupe, Mummer, Ragtime, Hillbilly, Vaudeville, Minstrelsy, Bard, Blackface, Folk singer, Troubadour

Local folk singer shares songs About the plight of people in Syria to.
The folk singer died of a heart attack while performing on stage Jan.
Every time the folk singer sounds sincere, we have to take a drink.
Johnsbury, Vermont, where the former folk singer was admired for his great voice.
Green Jeans, the New Old Folk Singer, Percy, Uncle Backwards, Mr.
Dickson frequented as a prodigious folk singer, way back when.
His wife is the famous Chinese folk singer Peng Liyuan.
List of shows folk singer shares songs About plight.
In later life, he preferred to be thought of as a blues singer, although accepted the label of a folk singer.
American folk singer who wrote, recorded and performs contemporary folk music.

The minstrel was behind Chrissock and to one side.
Many Jazz musicians played in minstrel and vaudeville shows.
Entertainment will be by Norman Conrad, Mini Minstrel.
The stereograph depicts an unidentified male minstrel performer.
From Captain to Minstrel, every LOTRO class explained.
American minstrel and vaudevillian group, tours South Africa.
Black man, all went to see minstrel performances.
Scout circus, minstrel show, play, campfire type display.
It contains the idea of a strolling minstrel.
It was only ever popular as a minstrel song, no one had heard of it before it became a minstrel song.