Apr 26, 2022 | MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Putumayo is pleased to present Blues Café, a captivating collection of laidback blues by legends and new discoveries from the Mississippi Delta and beyond. Available this Friday, April 29, this release includes a CD, album download card and booklet with extensive...
Apr 18, 2022 | Christine Sweeney - Releases, Press Releases
“One of folk country’s most entrancing new voices” (Holler.Country) Christine Sweeney will release her spirit-lifting sophomore album ‘Heart In a Hurry’ this Friday but already garnered accolades for the soul/folk songwriter and stop-you-in-your-tracks vocalist....
Apr 12, 2022 | Dom Flemons - Releases, Press Releases
Special Guests Performing with Flemons Include Andy Hedges and Tony Trishka GRAMMY Award-winner, Two-Time EMMY nominee, and 2020 United States Artists Fellow Dom Flemons will perform three nights at Symphony Space in NYC, each evening has a special theme and musical...
Apr 11, 2022 | Folk Alliance - Releases, Press Releases
Musicians Invited to Perform a Favorite Folk Song May 3 April 11, 2022, Kansas City, MO – Folk Alliance International (FAI) has announced the For Pete’s Sake, Donate campaign to launch May 3, to benefit The Village Fund while celebrating Pete Seeger’s birthday:...
Apr 7, 2022 | Folk Alliance - Releases, Press Releases
The Late Nanci Griffith and Acclaimed Conjunto Artist Flaco Jiminez to Receive Lifetime Achievement Recognition Kansas City, MO (April 7, 2022) – Folk Alliance International(FAI), the foremost global nonprofit for folk music and the producers of the...
Apr 6, 2022 | Press Releases, Ryan Lee Crosby - Releases
Boston Songwriter/Guitarist Confirms Sets at Clarksdale, MS’ Juke Joint Festival, Bentonia Blues Festival with Grammy Nominee Jimmy “Duck” Holmes “Sometimes light and free-flowing, sometimes intense and heavy.”–Aquarium Drunkard “Ryan Lee...
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 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 7, 2022 | Bible & Tire - Releases, MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Whatever You Need out May 6 via Producer Bruce Watson’s Bible & Tire Recording Co. as First Single “I Shall Not Be Moved” Out Today “Johnny Ray Daniels [sings] the blues to chase out the devil.”–MOJO “Powerful.”–PopMatters “When he...
Feb 24, 2022 | Folk Alliance - Releases, Press Releases
Kansas City, MO (February 24, 2022) – Folk Alliance International (FAI), the foremost global nonprofit for folk music, today announced its 2022 Artist in Residence (AIR) project; a commissioned piece by Canadian multi-instrumentalist Saskia Tomkins in...
Feb 23, 2022 | Christine Sweeney - Releases, Press Releases
How did stop-you-in-your-tracks vocalist and songwriter Christine Sweeney go from singing along with R&B radio and tapes by Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, and Destiny’s Child as a kid; to choice slots at the Connecticut Folk Fest and Falcon Ridge Folk Fest,...
Feb 9, 2022 | Folk Alliance - Releases, Press Releases
Folk Alliance International (FAI), a Kansas City-based 501(c)3 and the foremost global nonprofit for folk music, has been approved to receive an American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to help the arts and cultural sector recover from...
Jan 25, 2022 | Bible & Tire - Releases, MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Bruce Watson Produced Album, Which Also Features Grammy Winner Matt Ross-Spang on Guitar “The world needs this music right now.” –Robin Hilton, NPR Music “What they call sacred soul: a nexus of secular soul music and gospel and you hear it all in here, right? It’s got...
