Last year this column featured California-based nonprofit Bluegrass Pride celebrating Pride Month with a virtual weekend festival, Porch Pride: A Bluegrass Pride Queer-antine Festival. It raised over $22,000 and enabled each participating musician to be paid $825 for their […]
The Blues Foundation gave out its 42nd annual round of Blues Music Awards in a virtual ceremony broadcasted from Memphis last weekend. Shemekia Copeland won three awards, including the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year honor. Her latest album, […]
In the spring of 2019, I sat down to write a song with my friend Olivia Hally, who was visiting from Melbourne, Australia. We talked about our fear and awe regarding pregnancy and childbirth (neither of us having experienced it) […]
Last year was a wash for music festivals everywhere, but with the floodgates opening we’ll soon be able to see the familiar folks we clamor for and make those new, memorable discoveries once again. Beginning this weekend and concluding in […]
Every week, dozens of artists launch crowdfunding campaigns. Even within a specific genre, you’re competing with a large number of people in search of help from a finite pot of money. While the majority of campaign pledges come from […]
Neko Case announced a new project this week, but it’s not an album: It’s a newsletter on Substack. Case envisions Entering the Lung as “a series of weekly postcards about loving nature and its crazy ways,” she says in […]
Summertime … and the reading is easy. For many of us, it’s a season when we get the chance to catch up on the books we might have missed recently or to re-read an old favorite. In addition to […]
I’d lately been thinking about Marcel Proust when I happened upon an article on him in a recent issue of The New Yorker and read this portion from one of his letters: “The essential purpose of music is to awaken […]
The family of the late, great John Prine has announced a weeklong series of concerts and events in his honor this fall. You Got Gold: Celebrating the Life & Songs of John Prine will take place at multiple locations […]
“Mickey Newbury simply sang with soul ablaze. After all, the long-time Nashville-based singer, a criminally overlooked artist during his lifetime but his generation’s most successful songwriter, owned an otherworldly tenor demanding fire from deepest depths.” So writes Brian T. Atkinson […]
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