Celtic Cultural Alliance (CCA), the folks behind the annual Celtic Classic that draws throngs of people to historic Bethlehem, Pennsylvania each fall, have partnered with Bethlehem BrewWorks to present a new monthly Celtic Music Nights series. [To read the entire article, click on the headline.]
Entries are now being sought for the 2009 Grassy Hill Kerrville New Folk Competition for Emerging Songwriters to be held on Saturday and Sunday, May 23 and 24, during the 38th Annual Kerrville Folk Festival. The first 800 entries received prior to March 15, 2009 will be accepted and 32 finalists will be named in April. [To read the entire article, click on the headline.]
Detailed listings for more than 80 concerts, open mics and jam sessions slated for December in Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk appear in this installment of the Long Island AcoustiCalendar. In addition to a lot of homegrown talent, touring artists of note visiting Long Island during the last days of 2008 include Aztec Two-Step, Anthony da Costa and Abbie Gardner, Joe Jencks, Chris Smither, Amy Speace, Loudon Wainwright III, Sloan Wainwright and Peter Yarrow. [To see the Long Island AcoustiCalendar, click on the headline.]
The Folk Music Society of Huntington (New York) joins with Clearview Cinemas and Folksinger Michael Johnathon’s WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour to present WoodSongs at the Movies at Clearview’s Babylon Cinemas (34 Main Street, west of Deer Park Avenue, in Babylon Village), on Wednesday evenings, beginning Dec. 3. This follows an initial three-week run in Manhasset. Live, 45-minute performances by featured local artists will precede a one-hour screening each week. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $12. [To read the entire article, click on the headline.]
The board of directors of the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance (NERFA) elected a new slate of officers while meeting during the organization's annual conference at the Hudson Valley Resort in Kerhonkson, New York earlier this month. [To read the entire article, click on the headline.]
Anne McCue was named Folk Artist of the Year, while Carrie Rodriguez took Folk Songwriter of the Year honors in the inaugural Roots Music Association Awards. Others recognized during an awards ceremony that took place on the closing day of the World United Music Festival and Radio Conference in San Marcos, Texas, Nov. 14-16, included Emmylou Harris (Roots/Americana Artist of the Year), Chris Knight (Roots/Americana Country Songwriter of the Year), The Dixie Bee-Liners (Bluegrass Artist of the Year), Pinetop Perkins (Blues Artist of the Year), Tom Gray (Blues Songwriter of the Year), Asleep at the Wheel (Cowboy/Western Swing Artist of the Year), and Jo-el Sonnier (Zydeco Artist of the Year). [To read the entire article, click on the headline.]
In this guest commentary, Ron Olesko, host of WFDU-FM's long-running folk music radio programs "Traditions" and "The Session" and president of the Hurdy Gurdy Folk Music Club in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, expresses dismay over the recent decision by the management of XM/Sirius Radio to give its folk music channel a "vacation" for the holiday season. "I'm hoping that this is just a simple error in judgment," writes Olesko, and "that satellite radio can set itself on the right track once again and live up to the promise that created the need." Maintains Olesko, "Should the merger [of XM and Sirius] turn their offerings into a mirror of the commercial mess that has passed for terrestrial radio in recent years, we will have missed what may be our best opportunity to showcase creativity." [To read Ron Olesko's commentary in its entirety, click on the headline.]
An interfaith holiday celebration in song will be presented by Tribes Hill, a lower Hudson Valley collective of singer-songwriters and their patrons, at the Tarrytown Music Hall in Tarrytown, New York, on Sunday, Dec. 14, at 3 p.m. Tickets, priced at $20, are available at www.tarrytownmusichall.org, as well as at the theater box office. [To read the entire article, click on the headline.]
As part of our ongoing efforts to forge connections and build community for performers, presenters and fans of folk, roots, singer-songwriter and other acoustic music styles, we have launched an AcousticMusicScene.com Group on LinkedIn. A professionally-oriented online social network, LinkedIn currently has more than 30-million members around the world. The new AcousticMusicScene.com Group supplements our online publication by providing you with opportunities to connect with others who share your musical interests, view rich professional profiles from AcousticMusicScene.com Group members, and exchange ideas and information via a discussion forum on LinkedIn. {To read this posting in its entirety, click on the headline.]
Finalists for the eighth annual Independent Music Awards were announced on Nov. 19. Produced by Music Resource Group, publishers of The Musician’s Atlas, the Independent Music Awards feature more than 50 music and design categories and were open to any indie-label release or self-produced, self-distributed recording released between July 1, 2007 and Sept. 30, 2008. [To read the entire article, click on the headline.]
The submission deadline for the 9th Annual Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) Song Contest has been extended to Dec. 10. The contest, open to aspiring songwriters in all music genres, is presented by CMT. NSAI members may enter for $35 per song, while the per-song fee for others is $45. [To read the entire article, click on the headline.]
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AcousticMusicScene.com will host a multi-CD release party and international wine tasting during this weekend’s Northeast Regional Folk Alliance (NERFA) conference at the Hudson Valley Resort in
Slated for Saturday, Nov. 15, from 2:30-4 p.m. and open only to those registered for the conference, the AcousticMusicScene.com event will feature performances by New York-based folk harmony trio Gathering Time, folk rock singer-songwriter Joe Iadanza, inventive world musicians the Guy Mendilow Band, and singer-songwriter and AcousticMusicScene.com co-creator Glen Roethel. The artists plan to accompany each other on a few songs for the very first time, making for a very special and unique event.
