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...
Oct 6, 2021 | Nora Brown - Releases, Press Releases
16 Year-Old Brown Featured on Apple Playlists, Confirmed to Headline Brooklyn Folk Fest Nov 12 Traditional banjo player and folksinger Nora Brown’s new album Sidetrack My Engine debuted at number six on the Billboard Bluegrass Charts this week, following several key...
Oct 5, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Releases, Press Releases
Esquire, Apple Music Make it Featured New Release Picks Elder Jack Ward – the sacred soul singer born in the Mississippi Delta who came up singing blues songs before moving to Memphis and joining the Christian Harmonizers for their 1964 hit “Don’t Need No Doctor” – is...
Sep 29, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Releases, MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Album and accompanying film recorded in the field in makeshift recording studio in rural, eastern NC right before pandemic Bible & Tire Recording Co. and Music Maker Relief Foundation have shared the new single from the landmark Sacred Soul of North Carolina...
Sep 28, 2021 | Press Releases, The Cookers - Releases
Band elevates after close to a decade and a half playing together Formed for a one-off Freddie Hubbard tribute concert in New York, The Cookers—the band consisting of jazz veterans who have played in bands with the likes of Lee Morgan, Art Blakey, Herbie Hancock,...
Sep 21, 2021 | Chris Robley - Releases, Press Releases
Guest vocalists Anna Tivel and Margaret Gibson Wehr elevate indie-folk album Chris Robley shines on his new album A Filament In The Wilderness of What Comes Next, out last Friday on Cutthroat Pop Records. Taking a close look at the nation, Robley co-produced the album...
Sep 20, 2021 | Nora Brown - Releases, Press Releases
Sidetrack My Engine follows her NPR Tiny Desk, NPR Weekend Edition, Teaching Workshop at Newport Folk Fest, Globalfest Appearance The kind of year Nora Brown is having in 2021—playing an NPR Tiny Desk Concert, doing a performance/chat with NPR Weekend Edition,...
Sep 3, 2021 | Folk Alliance - Releases, Press Releases
Official Showcase Applications Opened September 1 “There were countless examples of folk as a valued element in the contemporary musical landscape… To wander the poster-festooned hallways was to be greeted by traditional folk in all its iterations, experience its...
Aug 17, 2021 | Bible & Tire - Releases, MMRF - Releases, Press Releases
Accompanying Documentary Film Out Oct. 5 Via Folkstreams When Tim Duffy of the Music Maker Foundation took Memphis’ Bruce Watson (Fat Possum Records, Big Legal Mess, and the new Bible & Tire Recording Co.) to rural eastern North Carolina to hear sacred soul music,...
Jul 20, 2021 | Press Releases, The Cookers - Releases
Cookers Confirmed for New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Fest Set Oct. 9 “Genuine all-stars”–Guardian “Individually, they’ve been at the core of the post-bop jazz scene for decades. As a group, they’ve been thrilling audiences around the...
