A late addition to this year’s Newport Folk Festival lineup, Anthony D’Amato, the 24-year-old singer songwriter who won praise after praise from high profile critics for his 2010 Princeton dorm-room-recorded-album, Down Wires (Amazon MP3 & Spotify), […]
Day: July 18, 2012
Video: Hurray for the Riff Raff
Just came across this splendid performance vid by Hurray for the Riff Raff that Offbeat Magazine and Liveset put together in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. The band’s front-woman Alynda lee Segarra, a 25 year old Puerto […]
Joe Fletcher & the Wrong Reasons
On my short list of freshman to watch at next weekend’s Newport Folk Festival, Joe Fletcher & the Wrong Reasons, an Americana band from Providence, won’t have to travel far for its set on Sunday. Last week, […]
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