I’ve had to think a lot about home-schooling recently. I shudder at the thought of my kids being chewed up and spit out of the public school system, especially in a big city like Seattle. But on the other hand, […]
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By now the social networks and big media outlets have spread the news that a pioneer of American roots music, Hazel Dickens, has passed away. We’d like to post some thoughts from our friend Art Menius, a well-known Folk-DJ from North Carolina […]
We just found this video on Facebook. It’s a beautiful and inspiring jam between three very different and equally adventurous musicians. Yann Falquet is one of the premier voices of his generation in Quebec folk music. He leads the popular […]
What is a contra dance? Contra dancing is a remarkably vibrant social dance tradition with roots in New England, but dance halls in nearly every major city. It’s like square dancing, but done in long lines, rather than in squares. […]
ALELA DIANE & WILD DIVINE from More Dust Than Digital on Vimeo. It’s no secret that we at Hearth Music are completely in love with the music of Alela Diane. We invited her to headline the first Seattle Folk […]
We rarely talk about country music as being “soulful” or having “soul.” Maybe today’s brand of urban twang just doesn’t have enough intimacy, or fragility to be thought of this way. Or maybe country singers have focused too much […]
The Cave Singers will always be associated with the Northwest. And with roots music. Even though they don’t necessarily connect with either one. Doesn’t matter. They’ve got beards, they sing over rootsy beats and finger-picked guitars. They make crooning […]
The sea has been on my mind a lot lately. Watching the power of a tsunami descend on the Japanese coast has cast a pall over all our social networks and our minds this past week. It reminds us of […]
As the son of public school teachers, I know for a fact that teachers have ridiculously low pay and are constantly in danger of being laid off. Without teachers unions, we will lose even more of our best and brightest. […]
Just got the news that St. Louis based old-timey troubadour Pokey Lafarge will have a 45″ released on Jack White’s enigmatic Third Man Records. If you haven’t heard Pokey’s neo-hobo jugtime ragband music, you need to give it a listen. […]
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