Hank Cochran: Living On A Song Nashville Film Festival People are bitching about the demise of country music, but they’re missing the point. At a time when everybody is overly styled, making the rounds and doing the marketing, they missed […]
Festival season is well under way, and the excitement of 55 short days until Wakarusa 2012 is almost too much for some of us to bear. We’re called by the mountain; we’re here for the music. Everyone comes to festival […]
FTB podcast #136 features the new album Canadian CAM PENNER called Gypsy Summer. Also new music from PIETA BROWN, BEARFOOT and THE DAVID MAYFIELD PARADE. Here’s the iTunes link to subscribe to the FTB podcasts. Here’s the direct link to listen now! Here is the RSS feed: http://ftbpodcasts.libsyn.com/rss. […]
This year’s Yonder Mountain String Band’s Harvest Music Festival and first ever instrument contest promises to be the best yet in Americana/Roots music and will feature the Yonder Mountain String Band, The Travillin McCourys, Greencards, 7 Walkers featuring Papa Mali […]
This year’s Yonder Mountain String Band’s Harvest Music Festival and first ever instrument contest promises to be the best yet in Americana/Roots music and will feature the Yonder Mountain String Band, The Travillin McCourys, Greencards, 7 Walkers featuring Papa Mali […]
Resting across this floral couch, a two-seater love seat by the window, I feel the breeze coming through the muggy, sweet-scented night air. I’m taking in the humidity, the thick oxygenated air and the seaside climate of Newport, Rhode Island, […]
While some might think all of this year’s outdoor festivals are over done with, Nor’easter Festival hits Burlington this weekend with a little bit of everything. The festival, in its third year and on its third location, has a forecast that’s a […]
Ever since John Lomax started collecting them in the early 1900s, cowboy songs have contributed as equally, if not more, to the North American fascination with the cowboy as dime novels and western films. The tunes that described a mysterious […]
Photo by Richard Kluver of the grass clipping blog. All rights reserved. By Garland Harwood Last weekend as 10,000 festivarians filled Newport’s Fort Adams State Park, I got the chance to catch up with Jay Sweet, producer of the Newport […]
I was all ready to review k d lang’s set at the Calgary Folk Fest when she closed the Saturday night show two weeks ago. I figured if nothing else, I should, as a fellow (now transplanted) Albertan (one who […]
