May 1, 2024 | Gearbox Records - Releases, Press Releases
Watch/Share the Visualiser Here Today, London-based producer and singer-songwriter Liza Lo has shared a new single titled “A Messenger”. The single comes alongside the news of her signing to independent analogue specialist label, Gearbox Records (home to Abdullah...
Apr 16, 2024 | Folk Alliance - Releases, Press Releases
Kansas City, Mo. (April 16, 2024) – Folk Alliance International (FAI), a 501(c)3 and the foremost global nonprofit for folk music, is pleased to announce that its Interim Executive Director Jennifer Roe will be heading the organization. Roe joined the FAI team in...
Apr 5, 2024 | Gearbox Records - Releases, Press Releases
Out 24th May Via Gearbox Records “A sultry haze of shimmering ambient electronics and sparkling, effects-heavy guitar. Just what the ambient doctor ordered.”–Electronic Sound “…a soothing breeze, teleporting you directly to a grassy field in the...
Apr 2, 2024 | Jalopy Records - Releases, Press Releases
Brooklyn Folk Fest Favorite Spent Years as Itinerant Street Performer Before Settling in Brooklyn “I’m in love with this record.”–Sam Doores (of The Deslondes) “Wyndham Baird’s album is a quiet miracle, superb work.”–Lau Noah In Rutherford...
Mar 20, 2024 | Folk Alliance - Releases, Press Releases
FAI Confirms Performances by Kaia Kater, Joy Clark, The Steel Wheels, Mireya Ramos, and Malena Cadiz & Willie Watson Kansas City, MO (February 20, 2024) – NPR’s World Café will exclusively live-stream the International Folk Music Awards tomorrow night at 7:30pm...
Feb 22, 2024 | Folk Alliance - Releases, Press Releases
Awards Show Live-Streamed by NPR Music Kansas City, MO (February 22, 2024) –The International Folk Music Awards – presented by Folk Alliance International (FAI), a 501(c)3 and the foremost global nonprofit for folk music— took place last night as part of the opening...
Feb 20, 2024 | Jalopy Records - Releases, Press Releases
Concert Follows Paxton’s Signing to Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and Brown’s NPR Tiny Desk Concert Kupferberg Center for the Arts in Flushing, Queens will present An Evening of Roots Music with Jalopy Records in concert March 30, with newly-signed...
Feb 16, 2024 | Folk Alliance - Results, Press Releases
Many folks have reached out to us in response to the act of violence during the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl celebration on Wednesday as this occurred near the location of our conference. Thank you to so many for checking on our team and families as many were...
Feb 15, 2024 | Folk Alliance - Releases, Press Releases
Thank you to the FAI members and registrants who reached out to check on our staff and local community in KC in regards to this yesterday’s act of violence during the Kansas City Chief’s Super Bowl celebration. We grieve for those directly impacted as well as...
Jan 25, 2024 | Abdullah Ibrahim - Releases, Press Releases
Ibrahim Confirms NYC Concerts at Harlem Stage Gatehouse April 26-27 with Jason Moran Legendary South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim returns with a new album titled 3 – out tomorrow via Gearbox Records. Hear/Share “Water From An Ancient Well” (with Noah...
Jan 17, 2024 | Folk Alliance - Releases, Press Releases
IFMA Nominees for Best of ’23 Include Album of the Year Nod to Molly Tuttle; Billy Strings, Nickel Creek, Madi Diaz; & Song of the Year to Joy Oladokun, Allison Russell, & Iris Dement Kansas City, MO (January 17, 2024) – Folk Alliance International...
Dec 1, 2023 | Abdullah Ibrahim - Releases, Press Releases
Out January 26 via Gearbox Records “South Africa’s Mozart.” –Nelson Mandela “The sound and spirit of Abdullah Ibrahim are potent as ever” –The Wire “There are few musicians in jazz who can make you feel that essentially all is right in the world.”...
Nov 28, 2023 | Ghalia Volt - Releases, Press Releases
Volt’s New Album Shout Sister Shout! (Ruf Records) Produced by David Catching (Queens of the Stone Age) in Joshua Tree, CA New Orleans-via-Belgium psych rock/garage/blues artist Ghalia Volt has joined the Allman Betts Family Revival tour. Volt’s new album, Shout...
Nov 1, 2023 | Ghalia Volt - Releases, Press Releases
Volt’s New Album Shout Sister Shout! Produced by David Catching (Queens of the Stone Age) in Joshua Tree, CA Last night, 60 Minutes (CBS) spoke with New Orleans-via-Belgium psych rock/garage/blues artist Ghalia Volt and aired footage from her set from Juke Joint...
Oct 25, 2023 | Nora Brown - Releases, Press Releases
Brooklyn’s 18-Year Old Banjoist/Vocalist Nora Brown and Award-Winning Fiddle Player Stephanie Coleman Team Up for EP Lady of the Lake (Jalopy Records) NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concert on Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman was released on Tuesday. Bob Boilen writes,...
