Memories and Moments by Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott continued to top the Roots Music Report folk radio airplay chart last week, while Internal Sounds by Canadian alt-country rockers The Sadies retained the #1 spot on the Americana/roots country chart. [The current Roots Music Report Folk and Roots Country Top 50 albums charts are posted with permission on AcousticMusicScene.com. To view them, click on the headline below.]
The burgeoning Americana music scene is the focus of Nashville 2.0, a new hour-long music documentary that airs on PBS television stations across the U.S. on Nov. 22. The special, which may be viewed as a primer of the genre, features performances by a number of well-known roots music artists and emerging artists who are transcending traditional boundaries and putting their own contemporary stamp on long-established genres like country, folk, bluegrass, blues, roots rock, R&B, rockabilly, folk-rock and honky-tonk that have inspired what is broadly known as Americana today. These are interspersed with filmed interviews with some of these artists as well as select music journalists and historians. [To continue reading the article, click on the headline.]
Memories and Moments by Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott returned to the #1 spot on the Roots Music Report folk radio airplay chart last week, while Internal Sounds by Canadian alt-country rockers The Sadies advanced to the top position on the Americana-Roots Country chart. [To view the latest Folk and Americana-Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, which are posted with permission on AcousticMusicScene.com, click on the headline.]
Dom Flemons, a founding member of Carolina Chocolate Drops, has announced that he is leaving the Grammy Award-winning African-American string band following a final round of shows with the group in December. [To read the full article, click on the headline.]
Two Ontario-based groups -- Jaron Freeman-Fox & The Opposite of Everything and the Good Lovelies -- led the winners at the 2013 Canadian Folk Music Awards that were presented in Calgary, Alberta on Sunday evening, Nov. 10. [To continue reading the article and see the complete list of winners, click on the headline.]
More than 800 performing artists, presenters, promoters, agents and managers, folk DJs and others actively engaged in traditional and contemporary folk music will converge on the Hudson Valley Resort in Kerhonkson, NY, Nov. 7-10, 2013, for the 19th Annual Northeast Regional Folk Alliance (NERFA) Conference. AcousticMusicScene.com will again have a major presence as it hosts afternoon and late-night song swaps, in addition to its popular Midnight Hoot at the close of the conference’s first day. [ To read the full article and see the AcousticMusicScene.com showcase schedule, click on the headline.]
Memories and Moments by Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott retained the #1 spot on the Roots Music Report folk radio airplay chart last week, while Still Fighting the War by Slaid Cleaves continued to top the Americana/roots country chart. [To view the current Folk and Americana-Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, which are posted with permission on AcousticMusicScene.com, please click on the headline.]
Memories and Moments, a new album from Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott, continued to top the Roots Music Report folk radio airplay chart last week, while David Bromberg's Only Slightly Mad was reportedly the second most played album. Still Fighting the War by Slaid Cleaves retains the #1 spot on the Americana/roots country chart. [To view the current Folk and Americana-Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, which are posted with permission on AcousticMusicScene.com, please click on the headline.]
Cardinal Sons, a New Orleans-based band of brothers, was named the grand prize winner in the 2013 Mountain Stage NewSong Contest at the live finals that took place Oct. 19 at Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein Atrium in New York City. [To continue reading this article, click on the headline.]
How might proposed changes to federal copyright law impact musicians and songwriters? How can artists make sense of new digital platforms for generating revenue from their music? How are musicians advancing social change? These are among the many questions to be addressed during the 2013 Future of Music Summit at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., Monday-Tuesday, Oct. 28-29. [To continue reading a short preview of the summit, click on the headline.]
Memories and Moments, a new album from Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott, continues to top the Roots Music Report folk radio airplay chart this week week, while Still Fighting the War by singer-songwriter Slaid Cleaves moves back into the #1 spot on the Americana/roots country chart. [To view the current Folk and Americana-Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, which are posted with permission on AcousticMusicScene.com, please click on the headline.]
Memories and Moments, a new album from Tim O'Brien and Darrell Scott, topped the Roots Music Report folk radio airplay chart last week. Blind, Crippled and Crazy , a duo recording by Delbert McClinton and Glen Clark continues to top the Americana/roots country chart. [To view the Folk and Americana-Roots Country Top 50 albums charts, which are posted with permission on AcousticMusicScene.com, click on the headline.]
