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...
Jan 20, 2022 | Press Releases, The Cookers - Releases
Look Out! (Gearbox Records) Ranks Among 2021’s Best Albums at NPR Music, Offbeat, Jazz Critics’ Poll, Jazztimes & Beyond Jazz supergroup the Cookers—whose members have played with many of the all-time greats of jazz and whose album Look Out! (Gearbox...
Jan 18, 2022 | MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
South Carolina Barrelhouse Pianist Albert Smith’s Debut Album Big Belly Mama to See Release As Part of MMF’s Exclusive Listeners Circle Series on February 1 “She is probably the greatest living blues guitarist that no one has ever heard of.” —Oxford...
Jan 13, 2022 | Folk Alliance - Releases, Press Releases
Aengus Finnan, Folk Alliance International’s fourth Executive Director in the organization’s 35-year history, has announced that he will step down from the role in 2022. He has been at the helm of FAI since June 2014. During his tenure, FAI expanded its definition of...
Dec 20, 2021 | Folk Alliance - Releases, Press Releases
Hybrid conference to be held in-person in Kansas City, MO and online-from-anywhere Kansas City, MO, December 20, 2021 – Folk Alliance International (FAI), the foremost global nonprofit for folk music, has announced that its 34th annual conference will move from...
Dec 16, 2021 | MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
The first edition in this new series from Mississippi’s oldest distillery now available Jackson, MS & Hillsborough, NC — Cathead Distillery, Mississippi’s first and oldest legal distillery, is proud to support Music Maker Foundation and their mission to tend...
Nov 2, 2021 | Nora Brown - Releases, Press Releases
“Diverse, spontaneous, counter-cultural, and trenchant…One of the most vital and spiritually sound folk-music events in the country.” -The New Yorker Magazine Nov. 12th & 13th, 2021St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church 157 Montague St., Brooklyn, NY...
Oct 25, 2021 | Elizabeth King - Releases, Press Releases
Music Video Created by Band of Horses and Artic Monkeys Collaborators Out Tomorrow Memphis, TN sacred soul singer Elizabeth King’s debut album Living In The Last Days, (following a series of regional hit singles in the 1970s reissued to acclaim in 2019) earned the...
Oct 20, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Releases, MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Outlets like NPR, MOJO, WNYC, and DownBeat are hailing Sacred Soul of North Carolina, the compilation album and half-hour documentary film out last week on Bible & Tire Recording Co. and Music Maker Foundation. The landmark collection was newly recorded by...
