A lot of good music is in store for folk and roots music fans in central Ohio, northern Florida and southern Arizona during the first weekend of May. That’s when the Central Ohio Folk Festival takes place in Columbus, the Gamble Rogers Folk Festival comes to St. Augustine, and the Tucson Folk Festival returns to, you guessed it, Tucson. [To read the entire article, click on the headline.]
Detailed listings for more than 100 concerts, open mics and jam sessions slated for April through the first weekend of May 2009 in Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk counties appear in this installment of AcousticMusicScene.com’s Long Island AcoustiCalendar. To view the calendar, click on the headline.]
Roots Music Report compiles weekly radio airplay charts for various roots-related genres. These are based on spin totals reported by music directors and DJs from more than 400 terrestrial and Internet radio stations. The latest Folk chart is posted here with permission. [To view the latest Folk radio chart compiled by Roots Music Report, click on the headline.]
Two music festivals of note take place in Texas in April -- the roots and Americana-oriented Old Settler’s Music Festival in Texas Hill Country and the very eclectic Houston International Festival, which spotlights Ireland this year. [To read the entire article, click on the headline.]
Guitarist-singer Matt Heaton and Irish flute player-singer Shannon Heaton have been playing music together since 1992, although the two did not begin to focus their creative energies on their duo until 2003. Since then, they have released four albums. Their latest is a collection of traditional love songs and tunes entitled Lovers Well. Kathy Sands-Boehmer recently posed questions to Matt and Shannon. [To read the article, click on the headline.]
Roots Music Report compiles weekly radio airplay charts for various roots-related genres. These are based on spin totals reported by music directors and DJs from more than 400 terrestrial and Internet radio stations. The latest Folk chart is posted here with permission. [To view the Folk radio chart compiled by Roots Music Report, click on the headline.]
In the first installment of what will be a recurring series of question and answer-style interviews with emerging talents on the acoustic music scene, Kathy Sands-Boehmer speaks with Raina Rose. A 2007 Kerrville New Folk winner, the young Austin, Texas-based singer-songwriter is a native of Portland, Oregon. Raina Rose is currently touring the East Coast with Rebecca Loebe, another talented young singer-songwriter. [To read the Q & A with Raina Rose, click on the headline.]
AcousticMusicScene.com has upgraded its Web presence to be compatible with a wider array of browsers and to enable us to present a richer multimedia experience in the future. To further enhance the value of AcousticMusicScene.com, we continue to add new content and resources. This week we introduce two new recurring features. Folk radio charts compiled by Roots Music Report will be posted weekly in the Acoustic Radio Waves section, while Kathy Sands-Boehmer's Q & A interviews with emerging artists of note will appear in the Features section. In addition to our extensive Links section, we are creating a new Regional Calendars section with links to websites where you can find out about concerts, jam sessions and open mics in various regions and U.S. metropolitan areas. Would you like to receive email notices and short article excerpts when new items are posted on AcousticMusicScene.com? If so, you can register online by scrolling down to the bottom of the sidebar to the right of this letter. Michael Kornfeld
Roots Music Report compiles weekly radio airplay charts for various roots-related genres. These are based on spin totals reported by music directors and DJs from more than 400 terrestrial and Internet radio stations. The latest Folk chart is posted here with permission. (To see the Folk radio chart compiled by Roots Music Report, click on the headline.)
The April 3 deadline is approaching for the 2009 Wildflower Performing Songwriter Contest that is associated with the annual Wildflower! Arts and Music Festival, May 15-17, in Richardson, Texas, just a few minutes north of Dallas... The Dallas Songwriters Association has announced the winners of its 2008 Song Contest. The grand prize winner and recipient of a Gibson guitar and other prizes is Mark Glasmire of Arlington, Texas, for “Missing You.” Glassmire also captured first place in the Americana/Folk/Bluegrass category. [To read the entire article, click on the headline.]
Three- and Four-day early bird tickets for MerleFest 2009, representing an average 10% discount over regular admission prices, are available until April 3. MerleFest, one of the most popular Americana music festivals, celebrates the music of the late instrumental virtuoso Eddy Merle Watson and his father Doc Watson. The “traditional plus” music festival – featuring a diverse array of roots-oriented sounds of the Appalachian region and beyond -- takes place April 23-26 on the campus of Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. [To read the entire article, click on the headline.]
Swallow Hill Music Association, which bills itself as Denver’s home for folk, roots and acoustic music, hosts RootsFest Denver in Colorado’s “Mile High City” on Saturday, March 28. Acoustic guitar virtuoso Leo Kottke, multiple Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin and bluegrass band Hot Rize headline the festival at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ Ellie Caulkins Opera House. Tickets are $55, $75 and $125. [To read the entire article, click on the headline.]
