The focal point of this weekend’s schedule is the annual Brooklyn Folk Festival, taking place at The Bell House Friday through Sunday. The festivities includes sets from acts like Frank Fairfield and The Tillers, as […]
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This Week’s 11 Must-See NYC Shows
This week, spend your Tuesday night in the Lower East Side, happy-go-luckily skipping to-and-fro between The Living Room and Rockwood Music Hall to catch Robby Hecht, Amy Speace, my new fave Nels Andrews, and pedal-steel […]
clippings calendar: This Week’s Must-See Shows in NYC
Spirit Family Reunion isn’t an unfamiliar name on grass clippings, but The Dirt Daubers may be. Not for long. The trio hailing from Paducah, Kentucky and Nashville, Tennessee is all banjo-strumming, mandolin-picking deliciousness, and they’re […]
Horse Feathers Release “Cynics New Year”
With bands like Blind Pilot, Fleet Foxes, Typhoon, Black Prairie, The Head and the Heart, Hey Marseille and Brandi Carlisle redefining the Oregon and Washington music scenes, the Pacific Northwest has a seen a dramatic […]
Top Five Songs for June
Summer is here (almost technically)…and here are some tunes go along with it. Americana for every stop on the sundial… Mornin’: “June Hymn” by The Decemberists High Noon: “Belly of June” by Horse Feathers Afternoon: […]
Orchestral Folk is Lost In The Trees
Over the weekend I was checking out some of the latest NPR Tiny Desk concerts. I found an amazing one from Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer and Zakir Hussain and then I came across this week’s […]
grass stains: Horse Feathers New Album, New Tour and OPB Episode
Kicking off a series of posts to come about bands headed to Newport this summer is Portland’s Horse Feathers. I started listening to the band led by Justin Ringle just a couple months ago. They […]
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