Aug 30, 2022 | Nora Brown - Results
Feature: New Artist of the Week “Hearing Nora Brown for the first time feels strangely comforting, like a warm hug that pulls you in close and feels so reassuring it makes you want to cry.” | Read More at...
Aug 30, 2022 | Folk Alliance - Releases, Press Releases
August 30, 2022, Kansas City, MO – Folk Alliance International (FAI) – the foremost global nonprofit for folk music – has announced the dates and theme of its 2023 conference, in Kansas City, MO on February 1-5, 2023 with the theme Facing the Future: Sustainability in...
Aug 26, 2022 | Nora Brown - Results
Album Review: Nora Brown, Long Time to Be Gone “With her new album, Long Time to Be Gone, she’s fully arrived as a confident interpreter of Southern old-time music, playing the banjo with depth, subtlety, and care.” | Read More at Nora...
Aug 25, 2022 | Ryan Lee Crosby - Results
Ryan Lee Crosby Has His Foot in Two Worlds “Bentonia is a couple of thousand miles away from Boston, but it’s where Crosby finds his muse.” | Read More at American Blues...
Aug 25, 2022 | MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Solo Fingerstyle Collection Arrives Oct 1 for Listener’s Circle Members, Available Everywhere Else Nov 4 Fresh off a booking at the 2022 Telluride Blues & Brews Festival, acclaimed Piedmont blues guitarist Shelton Powe will release a new self-titled album of...
Aug 24, 2022 | Nora Brown - Releases, Press Releases
Tour Starts with NYC Show to Benefit Kentucky Floor Relief As Album Earns Plaudits from New Yorker, NPR, & Official Playlist Placements with Spotify and Apple Music Fresh from triumphant sets as Newport Folk Fest and the Philadelphia Folk Fest, seventeen-year-old...
Aug 23, 2022 | No Depression, Nora Brown - Results
At 17, Nora Brown Taps Into Past Generations With Her Banjo “From the instruments Nora Brown plays and company she keeps, to the research and knowledge enabling her to fully occupy the music she interprets, it’s evident the bloodlines of banjo lore run thick in...
Aug 22, 2022 | New Yorker, Nora Brown - Results
Night Life: Nora Brown “Taking a wrecking ball to regional and demographic stereotypes, the teen banjo wunderkind Nora Brown specializes in old-time music more redolent of Appalachia than of her native Brooklyn.” | Read More at New...
Aug 18, 2022 | Binker Golding - Results, Pitchfork
34 Great Records You May Have Missed: Spring/Summer 2022 “Golding’s lyrical solos ride off into the sunset and his expertly poised band follows him into blues, Americana, and soft rock. Golding’s gleaming tone is a beacon on a jazz album that improbably opens...
Aug 15, 2022 | Ryan Lee Crosby - Results
Ryan Lee Crosby joins us to talk all about his stunning new Bentonia Blues album “He also shares lessons he has learned studying under the legendary Jimmy ‘Duck’ Holmes.” | Read More at Blues In the...
Aug 9, 2022 | Binker Golding - Results
Binker Golding, Dream Like A Dogwood Wild Boy “Golding doesn’t hide his influences here but indulges them without compromise, paying tribute to an era in jazz which he obviously still deems relevant today and in which finds corners left to explore.” ...
Aug 4, 2022 | Nora Brown - Results
Album Review: Nora Brown, Long Time To Be Gone “Whilst Nora Brown’s playing on her first two records was unquestionably wonderfully accomplished and vibrant, Long Time To Be Gone feels like a significant musical advance.” | Read More at Folk Radio...
Aug 3, 2022 | Bible & Tire - Results, MMRF - Results, NPR
“You Don’t Know” (Free at Noon Concert) “Dedicated Men of Zion perform ‘You Don’t Know’ live for an XPN Free at Noon Concert. Recorded at World Cafe live in Philadelphia on 7/29/22.” | Read More at...
Aug 3, 2022 | Bible & Tire - Results, MMRF - Results
The Dedicated Men of Zion bring a spirit-raising set to World Cafe Live for Free at Noon “It was a family affair when the close-knit harmonies and rock and roll energy of this North Carolina gospel ensemble took the Free at Noon stage today.” | Read More...
Aug 2, 2022 | Abdullah Ibrahim - Releases, Press Releases
New Album Solotude Earning Considerable Acclaim Piano master and NEA Jazz Master Abdullah Ibrahim will perform concerts August 23-28 at the Blue Note in NYC as well as September 2-3 at the Detroit Jazz Festival. Earlier this year, NPR Music shared his Tiny Desk (Home)...
