Hearth Music Guest Blogby Paul Michel Fly Down Little Bird Mike Seeger and Peggy Seeger Remember 1955? Good for you. Let’s set the stage for the forgetful: Ray Kroc launches his first McDonald’s, the Salk polio vaccine is approved, Disneyland […]
Sadly, I’ll have to miss Bumbershoot, Seattle’s huge annual arts+music festival, this year, as I’ll be cooling my heels in Hawaii (not that sad!). But I usually go every year, and have seen some amazing shows. I had my best celebrity […]
Dr. Squeeze, a frequent guest blogger at Hearth Music, had the good fortune to attend the recent Taj Mahal concert at Centrum’s Acoustic Blues Festival. We asked him for a review. Dr. Squeeze Guest Blog: Taj Mahal Concert Review […]
It’s been a while since our last “Videos of the Week”, which has given some of our friends ample time to put out some incredible work. Video is the new CD, and Vimeo is the new YouTube, so if you […]
Greg Allman’s Low Country Blues Not being an original fan of the Allman Brothers, I’m not going to start this review by talking about Gregg Allman’s early career in that seminal band. Instead, I’d just like to say that Allman’s […]
Lauren Sheehan. Rose City Ramble. 2011. Wilson River Records. Lauren Sheehan’s been a fixture in the Northwest’s acoustic roots music scene for a while now, but with her new album, Rose City Ramble, she may just be turning […]
Pickathon is one of the top roots music festivals in the US, and from its inception, it’s consistently been at the cutting edge, not only of the folk festival industry, but any festival. Pickathon coined the term indie-roots, by bringing […]
Victory Music Review. July 2011.Next Gen Folk Column It’s been a while since I listened to Zydeco, that bumpin’ Creole accordion music from Southwest Louisiana and East Texas, so I’ve definitely lost touch with the scene. The last time […]
Ron Davies was a songwriter’s songwriter. The kind of artist who wasn’t as well known to the public as he was to his fellow artists. His songs were covered by others like Nanci Griffith, Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs, Maria Muldaur, […]
This is the third post in Hearth Music‘s series on contemporary Irish music. Our last post focused on the Irish poet and songwriter, Rónán Ó Snodaigh, and our first post focused on Irish whisper-folk songwriter James Vincent McMorrow. The Irish […]
