On Friday, August 22 through Sunday, August 24, our friends Mike + Ruthy will present the second annual Summer Hoot at The Ashokan Center near Woodstock. The lineup is looking strong, including gcb favorites like David […]
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Thursday at Rockwood: Miss Tess & The Talkbacks with Mike + Ruthy
This Thursday, Brooklyn’s sassy, jazzy, zydeco-tease Americana band, Miss Tess & The Talkbacks, play Rockwood’s Stage II with Woodstock’s husband/wife folk duo, Mike + Ruthy. Miss Tess released The Love I Have For You (Amazon […]
Mike + Ruthy Host The Summer Hoot
The heat is back. The sweat is back. And we’ve got another festival this weekend. Kicking off Friday a few miles outside of the iconic Catskill town of Woodstock, Mike Merenda and Ruthy Ungar (a.k.a. […]
Mike + Ruthy’s “My New York City”
Woody Guthrie, who would have turned 100 in just a couple weeks, tends to be more often celebrated as a great storyteller than a poetic genius, but he really is both. Earlier this week, Mike […]
Mike + Ruthy to Release New EP
Woodstock’s Mike + Ruthy, among the young artists on the new Old Hills, Young Mountain recording we mentioned earlier this week, aren’t a new band like the others. The husband-wife duo have been touring and […]
The Resurgence of Activist Folk in The Era of Donald Trump
“A good song reminds us what we’re fighting for.” – Pete Seeger From labor rights to civil rights to the peace movement to environmental causes, folk legends like the late Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Joan Baez, […]
SUNDAY: Michael Daves Wrangles All Star Lineup for 4th Annual Brooklyn Bluegrass Bash
This Sunday, November 29th, multiple generations of bluegrass musicians will come together at The Bell House in Gowanus for the 4th Annual Brooklyn Bluegrass Bash organized by celebrated and Grammy-nominated Brooklyn old time singer and […]
THURSDAY: Elephant Revival at The Bowery Ballroom
Photo by Angie Barnes It’s hard to fully experience Colorado bluegrass at a club in New York without some epic mountain ridge-lines in the background. That’s probably not why many of these bands fail make […]
Escapism Folk for a Summer at Home
This is my first post in more than a month. I took a break mostly because I had to – the day job has been a days, nights and weekends job lately. But while I […]
Q&A: Kristin Andreassen on Her New Solo Album and Upcoming US Tour Dates
Kristin Andreassen traveled the world her previous projects Uncle Earl and Sometymes Why, but this year the Brooklyn artist embarked on the first headlining tour supporting her solo work. The tour is timed with the release […]
Small Houses to Release ‘Revel’ in Early 2015
A few weeks ago at the Summer Hoot, I finally got to meet up with Jeremy Quentin, the Flint, MI-based folk singer who performs under the banner of Small Houses. I first heard about Quentin […]
Pics from The Summer Hoot
Last weekend, I made it upstate for one of three days at the 2nd Annual Summer Hoot – a fun little festival with a big lineup put together by my friends Mike + Ruthy on […]
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