This year with its Folk Unlocked Virtual Festival, a first-ever worldwide 800+ hour online public festival to be held February 22nd through the 26th, Folk Alliance International kicks off its Village Fund, a fund specifically designed to help musicians and folk music workers through the Covid 19 crisis. Aengus Finnan, executive director of FAI […]
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Americana Highways got to sit down with Jessica Pyrdsa, better know as Datura, to discuss her ravishing cover of everyone’s favorite Christmas Carol, Tom Waits’ Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis and her annual Tom Waits Tribute which will be live streamed December 14th at 7pm (CST). AH: Hey Jessica, tell us a bit about […]
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MERCURY LOUNGE LIVE PRESENTS: JOHN FULLBRIGHT WITH GUEST PILGIRM PPV EVENT Virtual Live Streamed Event | Saturday, August 1st | 8PM TULSA, Okla. June 27, 2020 – The Mercury Lounge Tulsa is excited to announce the return of Grammy-nominated Oklahoma singer songwriter, John Fullbright, August 1st for a high definition streaming, full band live performance, with local […]
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Last year’s Woody Guthrie Festival was unquestionably one of my favorite musical memories of 2019. Understandably, I was eagerly anticipating this year’s artist unveiling as well as a chance to once again be a part of the sense of community and family that swells the population of Okemah annually each July. Alas, the trainwreck that […]
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I can’t recall how I first saw Nathan Scott Moore’s Livestream on FaceBook, but it immediately felt like I was settling into a nice easy chair and felt like I was shedding the anxiety from the onslaught of news, opinions and social media noise. Now I spend a little time each evening easing into the […]
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I was late to the Prine party. Very, VERY late. In my adult life, I’ve mainly enjoyed two kinds of music – sad and LOUD. Prine’s music was never loud, and the humor in his lyrics always threw me off. I didn’t know what to make it, so I quit. I mean, I knew it […]
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Danbury, North Carolina, population: 183, functions as the county seat of Stokes County and maintains the feel of an old-time mountain town, nestled within the heart of the Sauratown Mountain Region. Danbury does not contain a single national or regional franchise – only local shops and small locally-owned restaurants, and the Dan river weaves through […]
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The Clinch River of Virginia rises near the town of Tazewell and flows down through the mountains of Southwestern Virginia, coursing through the region that has become known as the heartbeat of rural America’s music. The Clinch River weaves through the community of “Old Castlewood” in the heart of Russell County where lifelong friends and […]
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Today the initial lineup of the 66th edition of the Newport Jazz Festival has been announced. Both the Newport Jazz and Newport Folk Festivals have been run by George Wein. Within the past few years Mr. Wein has passed the torch to Jay Sweet, the current executive producer of both festivals as well as its […]
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Last fall, while listening to the remastered Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit LP, I was reminded that Isbell is, in fact, an 80s kid – born in 1979. So, too, is producer Dave Cobb (born 1974). It may not be the most obvious characteristic of their music, but you can’t completely escape what you […]
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