Folk Alliance International (FAI) revealed last night the winners of the 2019 International folk Music Awards. The winner in the Artist of the Year category…
Folk Alliance International Announces 2019 Artist, Song, and Album of the Year
Tag: American folk music
Artist Profiles: Becky Buller
Becky Buller grew up in Minnesota. She played fiddle with her parents and Gordy and Roxy Shultz in the group Prairie Grass. She studied classical…
Candid Respect for American Stringband Music
Tui – Pretty Little Mister (Pretty Little Mister, 2019) The shiny sparkly goodness whipped up on the debut recording Pretty Little Mister by the duo…
Vocal Worldly Delights from Moira Smiley
Moira Smiley – Unzip The Horizon (Moira Smiley Music, 2018) Itinerant American multi-instrumentalist, composer and prodigious singer Moira Smiley has toured the world with various…
Artist Profiles: Rhiannon Giddens
Rhiannon Giddens was born February 21, 1977 in Greensboro, North Carolina. She is a renowned multi-instrumentalist, composer, singer-songwriter and researcher, best known as one of…
Big Statements and African Diaspora Roots Sounds from Leyla McCalla
Leyla McCalla – Capitalist Blues (PIAS, 2019) Capitalist Blues is the third album by former Carolina Chocolate Drops cellist and singer-songwriter, Leyla McCalla. On Capitalist…
An Instructive Representation of Black Cowboy Music
Dom Flemons – Black Cowboys (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2018) Celebrated multi-instrumentalist, singer and musicologist Dom Flemons, a founding of the seminal Carolina Chocolate Drops,…
Artist Profiles: Toshi Reagon
Born in Atlanta and raised in Washington DC, Toshi Reagon cites her musical abilities from her family. Both parents belonged to SNCC’s (Student Non-Violent Coordinating…
Artist Profiles: Paul Simon
Folk singer Paul Frederic Simon was born October 13, 1941 in Newark New Jersey. His music career started in Forest Hills High School when…
Artist Profiles: Jake Armerding
Jake Armerding performed around Massachusetts from an early age often with his father Taylor’s popular bluegrass band Northern Lights. Armerding has won both regional and…