Hootenanny

A hootenanny is an event involving music in the United States. It is particularly associated with folk music.
Hootenanny is an Appalachian colloquialism that was used in the early twentieth century U.S. as a placeholder name to refer to things whose names were forgotten or unknown. In this usage, it was synonymous with thingamajig or whatchamacallit, as in: "Hand me that hootenanny."
Hootenanny is also an old country word for "party" or get-together. It can refer to a folk music... meer