By now you you have read Kim’s enchanting piece on this year’s MerleFest, now comes my take on MerleFest at 30. Rather than a blow by blow, I’ll go with some takeaways. Here now are mine for MerleFest’s 30th edition. […]
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Anyone can rattle off the names of female artists who have made it big in just about any genre of music, but what about female producers? Women in the studio are still a relative rarity, and there aren’t many of […]
Americana Fest 2016 has ended. Once again, it was six nights and five days when an international community gathered around its common love and respect for a kind of music that is raw, honest, earnestly human, universal. We could break it […]
The weather is cooling a bit, the stages are going up, the kegs of FreshGrass IPA are being rolled in, and the banjos will soon be tuned. Yes, it’s time again for the FreshGrass Festival. This will be my third […]
To paraphrase Ecclesiastes, of the making of many music books there is no end. As I pointed out in last week’s column, there are enough new titles from publishers both large and small to keep us reading well into the […]
With so many roots artists, from young independents to established stars, using crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter, PledgeMusic, and IndieGoGo to promote and secure funding for their new projects, it can be a little daunting for a fan. How to know […]
MerleFest 2016 was bookended by something I had never experienced there before: car troubles. On Friday my battery died and on Sunday, after a full night of rain, I had a flat tire. While those inconveniences prevented me from catching […]
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