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Bruce Cockburn “On A Roll” With North American & UK Tour In Support Of Forthcoming Album, O Sun O Moon

Bruce Cockburn “On A Roll” With North American & UK Tour In Support Of Forthcoming Album, O Sun O Moon

Posted April 17, 2023 at 11:45 am | No comments

Bruce Cockburn has won 13 JUNO Awards, an induction into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, and has been made an Officer of the Order of Canada, among many other accolades.

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Mercury Records To Release A Night At The Family Dog & Go Ride The Music & West Pole

Mercury Records To Release A Night At The Family Dog & Go Ride The Music & West Pole

Posted March 21, 2023 at 10:31 am | No comments

A Night At The Family Dog held on February 4, 1970, featured the brightest three lights of the Bay Area, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead and Santana. These three bands would define a scene that had the whole world wondering what exactly was going on in the Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco. A Night At The Family Dog starts with two iconic Santana performances before Grateful Dead covers Otis Redding. 

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Folk Icon John McCutcheon to Perform at The Barns of Wolf Trap, Vienna, VA, April 20, 2023!

Folk Icon John McCutcheon to Perform at The Barns of Wolf Trap, Vienna, VA, April 20, 2023!

Posted March 16, 2023 at 1:58 pm | No comments

Leap! follows on the heels of Cabin Fever: Songs from the Quarantine (2020) and Bucket List (2021) and brings to 54 the new songs written and released since the 2020 lockdown.  “And that’s less than half of what’s been composed, not counting at least that many from my weekly Zoom sessions with Tom Paxton and others!” said McCutcheon.

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Kate Macleod to Release Jean Ritchie’s Come Fare Away With Me on April 14th!

Kate Macleod to Release Jean Ritchie’s Come Fare Away With Me on April 14th!

Posted March 7, 2023 at 6:00 am | No comments

Kate MacLeod’s long-term project of study, performance, and recordings of Jean Ritchie are coming into focus with The Jean Ritchie Experience. There are four new renditions of songs to be released as singles, and plans for more. Most  will include special guest musicians on the recordings.The Utah Division of Arts and Museums has awarded a grant in support of this work.

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Bruce Cockburn Set to Release His 35th Album O Sun O Moon on May 12 on True North Records

Bruce Cockburn Set to Release His 35th Album O Sun O Moon on May 12 on True North Records

Posted March 6, 2023 at 12:37 pm | No comments

Bruce Cockburn has enjoyed an illustrious career shaped by politics, spirituality, and musical diversity. His remarkable journey has seen him embrace folk, jazz, rock, and worldbeat styles while earning high praise as a prolific, inspired songwriter and accomplished guitarist.

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Atlantic Records Nashville Artist Knox Releases His Debut EP How To Lose A Girl In 7 Songs

Atlantic Records Nashville Artist Knox Releases His Debut EP How To Lose A Girl In 7 Songs

Posted February 17, 2023 at 12:51 pm | No comments

Knox used Covid isolation time to work on his craft. His focus paid off: his songs caught the attention of John Harvie, who placed a few on his album, as well as Harvie’s label. Knox signed a publishing deal in 2022 but was struck with the urge to record a collection of songs he had been working on. The final result was How to Lose a Girl in 7 Songs, Knox’s debut EP.

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NPR Music’s Artist to Watch Bird Streets Releases Latest Single “Let You Down”

NPR Music’s Artist to Watch Bird Streets Releases Latest Single “Let You Down”

Posted February 10, 2023 at 12:16 pm | No comments

Brooklyn’s Bird Streets releases their latest single “Let You Down” on Friday, February 10, 2023 featuring members from Wilco, Sting and A Great Big World. Bird Streets, named NPR Music’s “Artist to Watch,” recorded in Brooklyn with producers Zach Jones (Sting) and Oscar Albis Rodriguez (A Great Big World) and mixed it in Nashville with Pat Sansone (Wilco).

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AXS TV Presents The Doors Documentary When You’re Strange Wednesday Feb 1 at 9 P.M. ET/6 P.M. PT

AXS TV Presents The Doors Documentary When You’re Strange Wednesday Feb 1 at 9 P.M. ET/6 P.M. PT

Posted January 25, 2023 at 11:11 am | No comments

The Doors’ arrival on the rock scene in 1967 marked not only the start of a string of hit singles and albums that would become stone classics, but also of something much bigger – a new and deeper relationship between creators and audience. Refusing to be mere entertainers, the Los Angeles quartet relentlessly challenged, confronted, and inspired their fans, leaping headfirst into the heart of darkness

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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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Old Dominion Racing to Host Long Distance Racing and Live Music!

Old Dominion Racing to Host Long Distance Racing and Live Music!

Posted January 7, 2023 at 1:02 am | No comments

A two-day foot racing event hosted by Old Dominion Racing will be held at Dominion Racing and Entertainment’s NASCAR track in Thornburg, Virginia, on March 4-5, 2023 with two of D.C.’s finest bands, Rick Landers & Heartland and The Rockits.

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