I saw and listened to a lot of music in 2018 – a lot. I have a demanding full time job as head of In the Public Interest (check out the link and feel free to sign up.) But music […]
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If you’re reading this you’re likely either on your way to Nashville or already there. Or, if you’re like me and a few hundred thousand other roots music fans, you’ll be staying right where you are and feeling awful because […]
Cambridge Folk Festival, one of the longest running folk festivals in the world, established in 1965, has always promoted equality and inclusion. The late Ken Woollard, the original founder, gave all artists the same billing on posters and publicity argued […]
“If we deal in anything as artists, we must be promoting empathy. That’s what music can do. It can’t change the world, but it can make you feel things for people you’ve never met. It can make you understand the […]
“I want real things — live people to take hold of, to see, and to talk to. I want music that makes holes in the sky.” — Megan Bee quoting Georgia O’Keeffe There is no place I’d rather be on the […]
How many Midnight Rambles have I gone to at Levon Helm’s home on Plochmann Lane in Woodstock, New York, from 2004 until the present day? Suffice it to say, simply, more than a hundred. Other folks went many more times […]
Every day a new tweet that summons the darkest aspects of humanity. Every day another assault on the rule of law, on the norms of decency and the common good. I’ve been working to make the world a better place […]
Music and the people who create it give me a great deal, especially these days when the country is filled with far too much hate and greed. They give us hope, heart and lots of joy. Frankly, I don’t think […]
It’s been a rough year. With what feels like a daily onslaught of heartbreaking news, it can be easy to wonder if we’ll ever see a day when the good outweighs the bad. A similar sentiment was on the minds […]
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