Link Wray, Charley Patton, Howlin’ Wolf, Monk Boudreaux Shine Among the Many Native American Creators of Blues, Jazz and Rock Celebrated in Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World rumblethemovie.com This brightly-edited, fast-paced yet thoughtful new documentary […]
The 55th Annual Philadelphia Folk Festival just ended, and we are fortunate that ND photographer Mark J. Smith was there to capture so many great photos and provide this week’s commentary. As he first attended the festival in 1970, he knows his way […]
Every art form goes through periods of intense transformation as artists discover new avenues and new methods to express themselves through the medium. Television is currently experiencing such a revolution, driven in part by advancements in streaming technology and the […]
Last night, the luminaries of the Americana world — artists, industry folks, reporters, fans — gathered at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, to celebrate the various achievements that have been made in the genre, in the past year. […]
Buffy Sainte-Marie Calgary Folk Festival 2015
Perhaps the most well-known Indigenous singer-songwriter of the 1960s folk music boom, Canadian-born Piapot Cree artist Buffy Sainte-Marie continues performing with undiminished energy, humor, and voice well into her 70s. She did just that this evening at Albuquerque’s beautiful KiMo Theater […]
Buffy Sainte-Marie at Blue Mountains Music Festival, Katoomba NSW, Australia, March 2015.
