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Lauren Calve Announces “Shift” May 26 Ahead Of Stellar All-Star Debut Album

Lauren Calve Announces “Shift” May 26 Ahead Of Stellar All-Star Debut Album

Posted April 19, 2023 at 12:20 pm | No comments

Lauren Calve has been undergoing a metamorphosis in her life, a massive shift.  You can hear it seeping through every song, oozing out of every lyric, and feel the shedding of her skin with every note on her first full-length album, Shift, out September 1.  The subtle and understated yearning in her voice, the intonation in her haunting vocals and delivery, Calve is longing for something more. 

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Music Photogragher Elliott Landy Launches Kickstarter Campaign for The Band Photographs 1968-1969 Vol. 2

Music Photogragher Elliott Landy Launches Kickstarter Campaign for The Band Photographs 1968-1969 Vol. 2

Posted February 7, 2023 at 12:52 pm | No comments

Elliott Landy took some of the most iconic photographs in rock’n’roll history. He was the official photographer at the 1969 Woodstock festival. His portraits of Bob Dylan and Van Morrison are on the covers of Nashville Skyline and Moondance, respectively. His work has been featured in major magazines. exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide for over 50 years.

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Award Winning Songwriter Donna Frost Releases Valentine’s Day Single

Award Winning Songwriter Donna Frost Releases Valentine’s Day Single

Posted January 21, 2023 at 7:29 am | No comments

Donna Frost is a veteran singer/songwriter and ukulele-wielding road warrior who has spent decades on tour. The Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist has performed her unique brand of storytelling folk throughout the United States, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom. However, amid all of the travel, she always finds time to record.

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Legendary Singer-Songwriter Ian Tyson has Passed Away Dec. 29th 2022 at His Canadian Ranch

Legendary Singer-Songwriter Ian Tyson has Passed Away Dec. 29th 2022 at His Canadian Ranch

Posted December 29, 2022 at 5:47 pm | No comments

Ian Tyson was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1989, and was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, with his former wife and singing partner, Sylvia, in 1992. Tyson became a Member of the Order of Canada in 1994 and in 2003, he received a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, and inducted into the Alberta Order of Excellence in 2006.

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Canadian-based Folk-Americana duo Peach & Quiet to release Beautiful Thing January 20, 2023

Canadian-based Folk-Americana duo Peach & Quiet to release Beautiful Thing January 20, 2023

Posted October 27, 2022 at 8:04 pm | No comments

Two years ago, the duo Peach & Quiet, reached out to the world from their log home on Canada’s West Coast with their debut album, Just Beyond the Shine. In a few short months, that record topped the folk and roots music charts in North America and had airplay around the world. Reviewers raved, calling it “a basket of surprises,” “superb,” “sublime” and “utterly original

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An Evening With the Masterful Musician and Humorist Toby Walker (Bonus Video)

An Evening With the Masterful Musician and Humorist Toby Walker (Bonus Video)

Posted September 21, 2022 at 1:59 pm | No comments

A musical romp of a show of stunningly masterful blues guitar, storytelling and a fine array of vocals by an aficionado of guitar, Toby Walker, at the 37-year old Reston-Herndon Folk Club in Northern Virginia, kept the audience captivated, song after song, story after story. Offering up traditional old blues tunes and more contemporary blues of his own, Walker, plucked, bent and made his Huss & Dalton guitar shimmer with a full bag of tricks, honed over decades of playing the usual and unusual haunts in the States and overseas.

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Steve Earle and The Dukes on Tour with The Whitemore Sisters – Live at The Birchmere!

Steve Earle and The Dukes on Tour with The Whitemore Sisters – Live at The Birchmere!

Posted July 21, 2022 at 9:37 am | No comments

Last night at Alexandria, Virginia’s legendary Birchmere Music Hall, Steve Earle and The Dukes rolled out an evening of country roots tangled with an eclectic mix of songs welded together by Earle’s vocals immersed in grit, beautifully crafted songwriting, and his amazing band whose melodic twists and turns, and hot licks “could suck the chrome off a trailer hitch”, in the purloined words of Willie Nelson.

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AXS TV Red, White & Rock! Event July 2-4 With Rock, Country, and More Music Legends

AXS TV Red, White & Rock! Event July 2-4 With Rock, Country, and More Music Legends

Posted June 22, 2022 at 2:38 pm | No comments

AXS TV gets the fireworks started this July 4TH weekend with the Red, White & Rock! event—an explosive three-day lineup celebrating some of America’s most iconic artists, airing Saturday, July 2 through Monday, July 4. Bruce Springsteen, Dolly Parton, Soundgarden, John Fogerty and more!

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Jesse Colin Young – The Highway Troubadour Tour featuring Jazzie Young in Tacoma and Seattle 2022!

Jesse Colin Young – The Highway Troubadour Tour featuring Jazzie Young in Tacoma and Seattle 2022!

Posted May 5, 2022 at 3:36 pm | No comments

With songs like “Darkness, Darkness”, “Sunlight”, “Sugarbabe”, “Songird and the Youngblood’s version of “Get Together,” Jesse Colin Young has influenced and shaped the character of American music for over 50 years. Jesse will be touring as an acoustic duo with his daughter Jazzie Young in support of his solo acoustic album, Highway Troubadour, filled with stripped-down versions of such hits as “Darkness, Darkness,” from the Youngbloods’ 1969 album, Elephant Mountain…

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Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Announces New Album Dirt Does Dylan out May 20th

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Announces New Album Dirt Does Dylan out May 20th

Posted April 7, 2022 at 12:28 pm | No comments

Five-decades-running Americana pioneers Nitty Gritty Dirt Band have already played a major role in the preservation and popularity of folk music—their Will The Circle Be Unbroken album series introduced droves of new fans to folk, country, and bluegrass and earned the band multiple Grammy awards—but now, the long-running group have taken on another American institution near and dear to their hearts; the Bob Dylan songbook.

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