In my never ending quest to bring to ND readers the length and breadth of roots music around the globe, this week the Southern Fried Festival in Perth, Scotland is featured. The festival bills itself as the “Festival of American […]
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The Americana Music Awards were handed out during a ceremony held earlier this week in Nashville, Tennessee. Winners included long-time Nashville favorites like Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives (Group/Duo of the Year) and Rodney Crowell (Song of the Year), […]
Summer may have just begun, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t already looking forward to AmericanaFest in Nashville, as well as its accompanying Americana Music Honors and Awards. Ahead of the show, the Americana Music Association has just announced this year’s […]
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 […]
It was by chance that Iris DeMent opened the book of Russian poetry sitting on her piano bench to Anna Akhmatova’s “Like A White Stone.” She’d never heard of the poet before, but a friend had loaned her the anthology, […]
It began a couple weeks back, when Eliza Gilkyson asked me, “Where does folk music fit within the Americana genre?” She asked it somewhat rhetorically, somewhat quizzically, since she has always regarded herself as a folksinger. I have ruminated on […]
This past Sunday, I took the train and then a subway to the Upper West Side, walked up and down Broadway picking at piles of books sold by street vendors for a mere dollar or two, and found shade in […]
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