As I write this week’s column, we’re two days out from the 2017 Americana Music Festival. So in this week’s edition of Crowdfunding Campaigns of the Week, I’m going to feature three acts that were instrumental in shaping what would […]
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It’s that time again to feature some of what ND’s fine photographers have posted during the past few weeks. However, first, I’d like to share some thoughts on seeing a legend last week. Graham Nash What becomes a legend most? Graciousness. Last week […]
Over the past week or so, while there were some exciting festivals going on in the eastern half of the US, there was an extremely nice one-day celebration of the 75th anniversary of Woody Guthrie’s Columbia River Songs at Benaroya Hall in Seattle. The […]
Crowdfunding has fundamentally changed the way that musicians deliver content to their fans. Sites like Kickstarter and PledgeMusic offer artists a chance to skip labels completely and solicit the Album fund needed to make new albums and tour behind them […]
“You know it’s going to be an older crowd when they don’t bother putting up the barrier at a punk rock show,” said one of The Showbox’s security guards, when I asked her where I was allowed to take photos. […]
For the last six years, my husband Dave and I have been involved in a funky little homegrown festival called the Far West Fest in Pt. Reyes Station, Calif. For us, it’s a great way to get back to our theatrical […]
The finest singer to emerge from American punk (depending on how you classify Los Lobos and David Hidalgo), John Doe has somehow managed to combine the reckless urgency that burned through his work with X with the lyrical precision and […]
John Doe’s latest solo record has a palpable, live-in-a-room vibe. Doe, Joe Henry and Dave Way jointly produced it, coaxing down star-shine from the Los Angeles skies to set the sessions aglow. For that matter, the X vocalist has said […]
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