For the second week in a row, Paul Simon's So Beautiful Or So What tops the Roots Music Report Folk Radio Chart. Following it are A Nod to Bob 2 - An Artists' Tribute to Bob Dylan on his 70th Birthday and albums by The Civil Wars, Eliza Gilkyson and The Waifs. [To view the current Folk Top 50 albums chart, click on the headline.]
A couple of music festivals of note in the Northeast take place during the first weekend in July -- one along the cobblestoned streets of the old whaling port city of New Bedford, Massachusetts, the other at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah, New York. [To read the article, click on the headline.]
Eliza Gilkyson's Roses At The End of Time continues to top the Roots Music Report Folk Radio Chart this week. Rounding out the top five are albums by Paul Simon, The Civil Wars, The Waifs and Bruce Cockburn. [To view the current Folk Top 50 albums chart, click on the headline.]
Eliza Gilkyson's Red House release, Roses At The End of Time, tops the Roots Music Report Folk Radio Chart again this week. Albums by The Civil Wars, Paul Simon, The Waifs and Abigail Washburn follow it. [To view this week's Folk Top 50 albums chart, click on the headline.]
Twenty-four artists/bands have been selected from among hundreds of applicants to perform in the Falcon Ridge/Grassy Hill Emerging Artists Showcase during the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival on Friday afternoon, July 22, 2011, from noon to 4:30 p.m. They are Brooke Annibale, Blair Bodine, Brittany Ann, Ellen Bukstel, Lori Diamond and Fred Abatelli, Friction Farm, Bulat Gafarov, Sharon Goldman, Jason Myles Goss, ilyAIMY, Layah Jane, Devlin Miles, Louise Mosrie, My Brothers Banned, Occidental Gypsy, Karyn Oliver, Pesky J. Nixon, Grace Pettis, Paul Sachs, Putnam Smith, Split Tongue Crow, Suzie Vinnick, Gail Wade, and The Whispering Tree. [To view the entire article, click on the headline.]
Eliza Gilkyson's Roses At The End Of Time continues to top the Roots Music Report Folk Radio Chart. Albums by The Waifs, The Civil Wars, Paul Simon and Carrie Elkin follow it. [To view the latest Folk Top 50 albums chart, whose posting was delayed to the RMR's website server crashing for several days, click on the headline.]
Black 47, Enter the Haggis, Joshua tree, The Makem & Spain Brothers, The Prodigals, The Screaming Orphans and Derek Warfield and the Young Wolfe Tones are among the artists slated to grace the main stage during the 21st annual Boston Irish Festival. Set for Friday evening June 17 through Sunday evening, June 19, in Canton, Massachusetts, the festival also will feature Irish dancing, films, sports, art, food, an O’Connell Street Marketplace, book readings and sales, genealogy research, and children’s activities. A number of other local and touring artists also will perform during the event. [To view the entire article, click on the headline.]
Eliza Gilkyson's Roses At The End Of Time continues to top the Roots Music Report Folk Radio Chart this week. It is followed by albums by Paul Simon, The Waifs, Abigail Washburn and The Civil Wars. [To view the current Folk Top 50, click on the headline.]
Six songwriters have been named as winners in the 2011 Grassy Hill Kerrville New Folk Competition for Emerging Songwriters. Mai Bloomfield (Venice, CA), Megan Burtt (Denver, CO), David Moss (Austin, TX), Cassie Peterson (Nashville, TN), Grace Pettis (Harrisonburg, VA) and AJ Roach (Brooklyn, NY) were selected by a panel of judges from among 32 finalists who performed two songs each during the New Folk Concerts on May 28 and 29 as part of the Kerrville Folk Festival. [To read the full article, click on the headline.]
Eliza Gilkyson's Roses At The End Of Time currently tops the Roots Music Report's Folk Top 50 chart, followed by albums by The Civil Wars, Paul Simon, The Waifs and Carrie Elkin. [To view the entire chart, click on the headline.] Editor's Note: Last week's chart is being posted late since I was traveling in the Carolinas and Virginia after attending the Southeast Regional Folk Alliance (SERFA) Conference. This week's chart will be posted on Friday or Saturday.
Nearly 200 people are expected to be at the Montreat Conference Center in Montreat, North Carolina, just off the Blue Ridge Parkway, near Asheville, May 19-22, for the fourth annual Southeast Regional Folk Alliance (SERFA) Conference -- an extended weekend of contemporary and traditional folk music, networking, education and workshops. [To read the entire article, click on the headline.]
Paul Simon's So Beautiful or So What tops the Roots Music Report Folk Radio Chart for the second consecutive week, followed by albums by The Civil Wars, Abigail Washburn, Carrie Elkin and Bruce Cockburn. [To view the current Folk Top 50 albums chart, click on the headline.]
