The Wood Brothers were in town last night, so was JD McPherson. You’d think Asheville, North Carolina, the “Brooklyn of the South” — where you can’t throw a yoga teacher without hitting a banjo picker — would be a big enough town to pack […]
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I love a good snowstorm, which is lucky, because here on the East Coast we are getting walloped this week. In fact, right about now, I imagine Joe’s Field at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA) is blanketed in a […]
Ben Sollee was nine years old when his public school teacher introduced him to the cello. As he recounted the story at the Mothlight in Asheville, North Carolina, last night, the Kentucky native comes from a line of musicians who […]
There was a point during Valerie June’s performance at the Orange Peel in Asheville, North Carolina, last night where she spread her arms out wide, cocked her head back, and, eyes closed, sang out, loud, in a way that felt […]
I’m excited today to announce the first ever No Depression Singer-Songwriter Award, which we’re launching in conjunction with the FreshGrass Foundation. For the past several years, FreshGrass has awarded cash and instrument prizes to up-and-coming artists via banjo, fiddle, band, and duo contests. […]
About a week after last November’s presidential election, I started getting emails from writers who were working on stories for this issue, asking for extensions. Though a couple of them had to do with the typical things — tracking down […]
It took until the middle of the final day at 30A Songwriters Festival, as Caroline Spence was singing in a dark tent about watered-down whiskey, for me to remember that not everyone in the audience was a songwriter. For many […]
Folk music festivals everywhere tend to be pretty casual affairs. The music is revered and celebrated, but not so much that everyone has to Take It Very Seriously. It’s about being human together, listening to each other, with music. There’s […]
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