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Twenty-four songwriters have been named as finalists in the 2026 Grassy Hill Kerrville New Folk Competition for Emerging Songwriters. Chosen...
Winners of this year’s Canadian Folk Music Awards were recognized during a celebratory and music-filled, extended CFMA 2026 Awards Weekend,...
Fifteen songwriters have been invited to showcase their original songs and compete for more than $10,000 in prize money at...
Joni Mitchell received a Lifetime Achievement Award, while Mariel Buckley’s Strange Trip Ahead was named Contemporary Roots Album of the...
Several hundred performing artists and others engaged in the music business will converge on the historic Victorian gingerbread-lined New Jersey...
Erin Ash Sullivan, a Massachusetts-based singer-songwriter, has been named as the winner of the 2025 Heyman Rising Artist Award. Focus...
Applications are being accepted through March 22 in the 19th annual Songwriter Serenade contest. From among all entries received, 15...
Emily Scott Robinson, a Carolina born & bred and Colorado-based singer-songwriter, had the top album (Appalachia) and was the most-played...
Roy Book Binder, a noted American country blues and ragtime guitarist, singer-songwriter and raconteur, died on March 3, 2026. He...
