No Depression has a seemingly subtle, yet extraordinarily important relationship with the FreshGrass Festival — an annual bluegrass and roots music festival that takes place at the Mass MoCA contemporary art museum in North Adams, Massachusetts. The presenting organization, the […]
(From Part One) The world shares a voice when it comes to music, a central expression extracting the best and profoundest in us. Comprised always of sound, in its rhythms, reaches, and rampings up-and-down, music also includes silence, but not […]
As summer winds on, the number of new crowdfunding campaigns continues to be down (among roots musicians anyway. Summer seems to be peak crowdfunding season for heavy metal acts). But there are always a few new campaigns worth talking about. […]
This is the third DJ we’ve interviewed from St. Louis’s fiercely independent KDHX. I am impressed by their programming and community involvement. Kelly Wells is not only a host but also a staff member, and has a country-folk band with […]
Just south of Cambridge, England, lies Cherry Hinton Hall, the park that hosts Cambridge Folk Festival. It’s a quintessential English park with the duck pond, the young families, the wide-open grassy spaces, and the consequent wildlife. For one long weekend […]
It has been an invigorating year for me in music: I saw nearly all of the Mountain Stage performances, a dozen or so festivals from Big Ears in March to Shakori Hills in October, many dozens of stand alone performances […]
It’s been an especially cold and snowy winter here in New York’s Hudson Valley, although not quite on the level of what my friends up in Boston have been dealing with. They just might stay frosty until the summer. But […]
You’d think the holidays were still approaching to judge by the number of new CDs that have piled up on my desk lately. I inevitably wind up giving the most ink to big-name performers, but albums from many lower-profile acts […]
