With her new album, ‘Ukulele Dance, young Hawaiian ukulele prodigy Taimane takes her instrument far beyond the Hawaiian shores on which she grew up. As she says, “I don’t look at the ukulele as a Hawaiian instrument. I look at […]
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Seumas Gagne is a well-known Scottish-American harpist and singer in Seattle, Washington, a community-organizer who’s been happy to set up concerts and workshops in his home for visiting Scottish traditional artists and a passionate supporter of the Scots Gaelic language, though […]
Sitting with folk singer Si Kahn in the bustling trade booth section at the Folk Alliance Conference in Toronto earlier this year, I ask him a simple question to start our interview – “Tell me more about your project, Musicians […]
I’ve been a fan of Cajun accordionist and songwriter Ganey Arsement for a little while now, not just because of his powerful accordion playing or excellent Cajun singing, but really because he’s a great French language songwriter. There aren’t a […]
Making or writing music for kids is a notoriously tricky thing, unless you’re a kid yourself. You can either make music that’s too simplistic for kids, who often have complex tastes and bizarre and disturbing senses of humor, or you […]
I’ve worked with Texas-based singer-songwriter Raina Rose before, and I have to say that she’s one of the most delightful folk musicians I know. Hard working, hard touring, and hard traveling, she makes no excuses for her music and strives […]
April Wolfe at Common Folk Music got me connected to the lush, beautiful, and yes, literate, songwriting of North Carolina’s Wes Tirey. Downloading his new EP, I Stood Among Trees, off Bandcamp I just kicked back in my chair and […]
It’s one thing to think about the impact that a photo can have. Iconic photographs have gone so far as to end wars and reverse public opinion, and the risks that many photographers go to are well documented. But until […]
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