Outside the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in Asheville, North Carolina, there’s a sculpture of a guy with a fiddle, a guy with a banjo, and a couple of people dancing. It’s cast in hard, cold metal, but the fixed figures appear […]
Outside the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in Asheville, North Carolina, there’s a sculpture of a guy with a fiddle, a guy with a banjo, and a couple of people dancing. It’s cast in hard, cold metal, but the fixed figures appear […]
If you were to Weird Science the prototype for a technically perfect, ethereal female singer, you’d come up with someone like Mikaela Davis. Petite, young and blonde, she’s a harpist with a high, dreamy, limber voice who boasts an affinity for […]
As I am on an extended journey, this week I again feature the photos of another crack ND photographer, Kirk Stauffer. What I have enjoyed most about his photos is their vibrant, deeply saturated colors. It takes me back to my […]
Folk music, in all of its forms, is about family – the universal family of artists and audience. It’s a worldwide family of restless human souls who find melodic expressions of love and redemption calling them toward their best selves. […]
Mathew Thornton is a man of many talents. Five years ago Thornton, his wife Kathy, and their daughter Molly opened the Union Coffee House & Café in Buchanan, MI, where he runs the weekly Sunday Music Session in the old […]
Grammy nominations were announced today (except Best Album, which is an announcement that comes tonight), and I thought I’d throw together a Cliff’s Notes version highlighting the categories and people we ND’ers actually give a flip about (it’s a long […]
JONNY TWO BAGS Salvation Town (Isotone) Jonny Two Bags, a.k.a. Jonny Wickersham, guitarist for the Southern California punk rock institution Social Distortion, has a great solo debut produced by David Kalish, noted for his long association with Rickie Lee Jones, […]
One of the oldest human possessions ever found is a flute. I’m talking somewhere in the area of 50,000 years ago, someone sat or squatted – presumably on the ground – playing a flute. The fact that these old flutes […]
If you’re of a mind to stir up a little controversy among die-hard bluegrass followers, just mention Nickel Creek; if you don’t hear “that ain’t bluegrass” or “that’s bluegrass lite,” you’re hanging with an unusual crowd. Their videos may do […]
Youth isn’t always wasted on the young. Exuberance, innovation and sheer musical talent unite in a confident and accomplished debut album by this foursome, three of whom have barely reached voting age. It doesn’t hurt that their producer is Alison […]
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