It is truly amazing when an artist can use the same tools for decades and continue to create vibrant, urgent, singular work. If there’s any musician that I know who [ … ]
Category: Music Features
Folk On! 2021
Remember in March of 2020 when we thought we might have to adjust our lives significantly for two whole weeks? And then those two weeks became a month, and two [ … ]
Peep This: The Old North “Southbound” Stone Cow Live Session
The Old North is a New England folk band made up of singer/songwriter Andrew O’Keeffe, Hayes Cummings on lead guitar, and Max Liebman on bass. There is something raw, yet [ … ]
FreshGrass Announces Finalists for FreshGrass Awards
Each and every year I attend FreshGrass Festival one thing is for certain, I am going to walk away seeing/hearing great music and much of that great music is coming [ … ]
A Jubilant Sound : 10 Years of Ear Trumpet Labs
I can personally say that my creative life has changed exponentially (positively) due to the wonderful folks at Ear Trumpet Labs . When I first started filming The Old Spruce [ … ]
Signature Sounds Presents : Back Porch Bluegrass Festival on Sunday, August 15th
Music seems to be making its triumphant return. From small concert series, to continuing trends of outdoor and cautious larger gatherings, it seems we are in the process of finally [ … ]
Freshgrass (September 24-26) Announces Single Day ticket sales
With only two months until Freshgrass is upon us and another mainstay New England festival sees the light after a very difficult year and a half for the arts (understatement [ … ]
Billy Strings Announces Pre-sale for New Album, Releases First Single
Bluegrass genre bending phenom Billy Strings announced the pre-sale for he and his band’s new record, Renewal (set to release September 24th), today. Even in the midst of a pandemic, [ … ]
Yasmin Williams: Chasing Sounds (Podcast)
Hearing Yasmin Williams’s compositions is immediately transfixing–and then you see her play, and it’s like you’re seeing someone invent how to play guitar. Yasmin’s most recent record, Urban Driftwood, is [ … ]
Carving New Paths: John Reischman’s New Track “The Coyote Trail”
For those who have their own musical histories or paths tamped down in the rich soil of bluegrass and roots music, the name John Reischman elicits responses of “perfect tone” [ … ]