PORT TOWNSEND, WA— Fiddle Tunes is such a blast it makes you wish you played the fiddle. It lasts a whole week, and you get to hang out with a few hundred other fiddlers who will just as soon jam […]
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On the day Brandi Carlile’s new Bear Creek was formally released the singer put on a showcase at Easy Street Records in Seattle. After marveling about the capacity crowd she pointed out that it wasn’t so long ago when she […]
Social networking has changed how we hear bad news and how we grieve. We’ve known that not all was well with Levon Helm for several months, he would cancel shows for ailments and operations but we all thought that he […]
Richard Thompson is messing with the standard performer/audience equation in two ways this year. There was his participation in the Cayamo Songwriters’ cruise in February, and his acting as an instructor at the first “Frets and Refrains” guitar camp, taking […]
It’s been six months since Garth Hudson came to my town, and I now look back at the event with a more realistic view. Garth and Maud, his wife and musical partner, were performing at a local club as part […]
Richard Thompson performs the folk standard on the deck of the Norwegian Pearl during the 2012 Cayamo Cruise.
The live recording of Enter the Haggis’ “Down With the Ship,” taken from the “Northampton” album, is paired with pictures of the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Fe…
Playing in a band has never been easy work, but today’s players probably look back to the good old days when all they needed to do was write, rehearse perform and record. Enter the Haggis is a case in point. […]
The WAMMIE-winning lament “Your Trailer or Mine” is performed in its rawest form by its composer Ken (Harny) Harnage on vocals and guitar accompanied by Ron …
This Buddy Miller performance of his wife Julie Miller’s “All My Tears” was recorded and photographed by Charlie Bermant onboard the Norwegian Pearl as part …
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