Just a few roots music updates this week, as we all begin to wind down for a nice winter’s rest: Biscuits & Banjos Festival Additions: Rhiannon Giddens’ new Biscuits & Banjos Festival added to their lineup announcing: Adia Victoria, Alice […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms are No Depression’s Spotlight artists for Nov. 2024. Learn more about them and their new album, Gold in Your Pocket (released Nov. 15 on Free Dirt Records), in this interview, and look for more all […]
Last Friday evening in Saint Anne’s Church on opening night of the Brooklyn Folk Festival, Latin American ensemble Guachinangos played their energetic blend of Mexican son jarocho and Colombian cumbia music to an audience seemingly unable to sit down […]
“What do you want me to do / To do for you, to see you through?” asks Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh on “Box of Rain,” a rare vocal appearance in the beloved folkie band’s Jerry Garcia-heavy canon. “A […]
Rhiannon Giddens is starting a music festival. The Grammy and Pulitzer Prize-winning musician announced today that her first Biscuits & Banjos music festival will take place in Durham North Carolina next April as a celebration of Black music, art, and […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Joy Clark is No Depression’s Spotlight artist for Oct. 2024. Learn more about her and her new album, Tell it to the Wind (out Oct. 4 on Righteous Babe Records), in this interview, and look for more all month […]
Hello all! This story starts with a chance meeting in a coffee shop, orchestrated by folk musician Willi Carlisle. Meeting No Depression’s dynamite managing editor Hilary Saunders that frigid March day, I couldn’t have imagined I’d end up here, nor […]
