This Philadelphia Folk Festival has a special place in my heart as it was the first festival I ever attended, in 1969, just as I was beginning college. I got to see so many folks I had just heard on […]
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The first week of August usually finds us in the throes of those lethargic dog days, but up here in the mountains on West Virginia we are experiencing some unexpected sleeping-with-the-windows-open coolness more often associated with the falling of the […]
As we get ready to stream this year’s Newport Folk Festival, titled “Newport Folk Revival Weekend,” photographer/writer Jim Brock, who has attended five of the last six festivals, shares with us some of his thoughts, memories, and favorite moments from […]
At first blush it might seem odd to say that any artist is on the verge given that the coronavirus has put a halt to their ability to display their talents by playing to live audiences, which has been how […]
Following the killing of George Floyd and the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, we’ve experienced a reckoning on race relations in the United States unlike any in the recent past. In the midst of that, and the deadly […]
If you thought the first six months of this year provided some outstanding releases, buckle up for its second half. New albums by Courtney Marie Andrews and Charley Crockett, and Bill Kirchen’s retrospective, are highlights from this month alone, and […]
This weekend (June 27 and 28), California’s Bluegrass Pride will celebrate Pride Month, and the 51st anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, by presenting Porch Pride: A Bluegrass Pride Queer-antine Festival. Headlined by Amythyst Kiah and Molly Tuttle, the festival will […]
Brandi Carlile, Brittany Howard, John Prine, Tanya Tucker, Yola, Our Native Daughters, The Highwomen, Buddy & Julie Miller, Billy Strings, Tyler Childers, Black Pumas, Brittany Haas, and Kelsey Waldon lead a diverse group of artists in the 2020 AmericanaFest nominations. […]
In preparing this week’s column I asked myself, with the turmoil that’s going on all around us, what’s the point? What’s the use? But the turmoil has always been there, right beneath the surface, underneath the politeness, civility, fear, and […]
Serendipity happens. In response to the Through the Lens column of two weeks ago that included Jerry Jeff Walker’s influential album ¡Viva Terlingua! that was recorded at the Luckenbach Texas Dance Hall, I got a note from contributing ND photographer […]
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