Kerrville Folk is celebrating 50th anniversary at this year’s festival, which runs a whopping 18 days (yes, you heard that right) from May 26 through June 12th! The festival takes place near Kerrville, Texas, west of Austin and San Antonio, on the beautiful, spacious Quiet Valley Ranch. And what a history. “Bridging Generations” is part […]
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Blue Ox Music Festival 2022, The Pines Music Park, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, June 23-25, 2022 Blue Ox Music Festival 2022 Promises an Amazing Line-up of Talent! Blue Ox Music Festival makes its 8th appearance this summer at The Pines Music Park in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Spanning Thursday, June 23, to Saturday night, June 25, 2022, […]
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In April, to the delight of fans, the Newport Festival Foundation announced that live music would be taking place at Fort Adams State Park. Due to COVID-19 capacity restrictions, two unique three day events were announced. July 23rd through July 25th and July 26th through July 28th would be filled with surprise performances, storytelling, and […]
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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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