Apr 1, 2022 | Folk Alliance - Results
Interview: Aengus Finnan On Folk Alliance “Aengus Finnan has helmed Folk Alliance International since 2014, and arguably some of the FAI’s biggest challenges have come in the last few years during his tenure.” | Read More at Americana...
Apr 1, 2022 | Christine Sweeney - Results
Christine Sweeney, “Better Parts” “The song is a declaration of love to partners everywhere that there’s nowhere I’d rather be than with you.” | Read More at The...
Mar 29, 2022 | MMRF - Results
MUSIQUE BOUTIQUE: Juanita Euka, Beverly “Guitar” Watkins, Karen Dalton, Irma Thomas “Beverly “Guitar” Watkins is another musician who broke ground as one of the few women musicians on the R&B circuit, wielding her guitar for decades before she finally got...
Mar 28, 2022 | Kevin Gordon - Results
Kevin Gordon and The Iguanas: A Match Made in Rock ’n’ Roll Heaven “On the albums he’s released over the past 30 years, Nashville singer, songwriter and guitarist Kevin Gordon has established himself as a rock ’n’ roller with a literary bent.” | Read...
Mar 28, 2022 | Abdullah Ibrahim - Releases, Press Releases
New Album Solotude Earning Considerable Acclaim NPR Music has shared piano master Abdullah Ibrahim’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert. To accompany the piece, Bob Boilen said, “It’s less a concert and more witnessing a master thoughtfully creating an atmosphere, a...
Mar 23, 2022 | Folk Alliance - Results
Shirley Collins, Madeleine Peyroux to Keynote FAI Conference “The 2022 conference will showcase various regional, national, and international traditional folk music forms in performance and presentations.” | Read More at Music...
Mar 23, 2022 | Christine Sweeney - Results
LI ‘Bluesy Pops’ Singer-Songwriter To Release 2nd Album “Christine Sweeney’s second album, ‘Heart In a Hurry’, tells a tale of heartbreak, perseverance, and moving forward.” | Read More at...
Mar 21, 2022 | MMRF - Results, No Depression
New Recording Shows Beverly ‘Guitar’ Watkins Rocking Hard “But slap a guitar in her hands, turn on the stage lights, and Beverly Watkins was transformed from a mild-mannered church lady into a rocking avenger, shredding anything that dared stand in her...
Mar 16, 2022 | Christine Sweeney - Results
Premiere: Christine Sweeney Shares New Single “Better Parts” “But as much as the band’s breezy rock and roll style will get you moving, it can’t distract from Sweeney, the undisputed star of the show.” | Read More at Under the Radar...
Mar 16, 2022 | MMRF - Results
Beverly “Guitar” Watkins shows the blues is about intensity “Listening to this concert, recorded in 2012 (and one track from 2010), it seems inconceivable, and inexcusable, that a singer and guitarist with so much heart and talent could languish for...
Mar 16, 2022 | MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Artists Include Jimi Hendrix Collaborator Hermon Hitson, Documentary Film Subjects The Branchettes, Grammy Nominee Joe Troop, & Music Maker Blues Revue The Town of Carrboro, North Carolina will present the Music Maker Foundation’s Freight Train Blues series of...
Mar 15, 2022 | Folk Alliance - Releases, Press Releases
March 9, 2022, Kansas City, MO – Folk Alliance International (FAI), the foremost global nonprofit for folk music, is thrilled to announce beloved jazz and blues artist Madeleine Peyroux and Crown-honored English folk music icon Shirley Collins as keynote...
Mar 14, 2022 | MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
“Fiery.”–New York Times “A total bad-ass.”–Guitar Player “Queen of the Blues Guitar”–Guitar World “One of the greats.”–She Shreds In the 1990s, Music Maker Foundation co-founder Tim Duffy wandered into Underground Atlanta and was amazed by an...
Mar 14, 2022 | Bible & Tire - Results, MMRF - Results
Dedicated Men of Zion, “A Change Is Gonna Come” “The most striking element is the incredible singing, born out of the North American soulfulness that also helped breathe the blues, funk, and, yes soul music.” | Read More at...
Mar 9, 2022 | Abdullah Ibrahim - Results, NPR
Abdullah Ibrahim: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert “And for 13 short minutes, I feel seated in Abdullah Ibrahim’s home in Chiemgau, Germany, witnessing seven decades of experience slowly dripping from his fingers and touching my soul.” | Read More at...
