This is a webinar hosted by the Southeast Regional Folk Alliance (SERFA) on the topic of Cultural Organizing and Social Movements in the U.S. South. Since 1932, the Highlander Center has been a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in Appalachia and the US South. Music has been an …
Seattle based duo March To May has just released their first EP The Water’s Edge, a continental-sounding folk project that blends the sounds of Celtic harp, Spanish guitar, soft percussion, and haunting strings with the lilting harmonies of the voices of Darren Guyaz and Beth Wesche. The result is an understated but passionate journey through the halls of musical awakening, essence, and love. There is fresh …
Kevin Welch has had a long and prosperous musical career as a Nashville songwriter and touring recording artist. His songs have been recorded by country greats like Garth Brooks, Reba McEntire, Tricia Yearwood, The Judds, Roger Miller, Ricky Skaggs, and the Highwaymen, to name just a few. He was passing through Birmingham, Alabama on his way home to Austin from Nashville where he played an NSAI benefit…
I attended a songwriting workshop March 21-23 at the Alabama Folk School at Camp McDowell in Nauvoo, Alabama. It was taught by seasoned singer-songwriter Kate Campbell of Nashville. Her storytelling ability has been compared to Southern greats such as Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty, and William Faulkner, while her recording career as a performing singer-songwriter is iconic in terms of her output and the quality of her songwriting ability. Her workshop …
Without fail, if you attend a Jeni and Billy show, you are greeted by the folk duo as such:
Jeni: Hi, I’m Jeni, and this is my true love, Billy.
Billy: And I’m Billy, and this is my true love, Jeni.
That opening struck me the first time I saw them in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. You can see, not only onstage, but in getting to know …
Canadian folk artist Linda McRae, whose music career spans 25 years, is not only fresh off of a tour of the Yukon, but is enjoying the massive success of her latest solo album Rough Edges, Ragged Hearts, which procured her a coveted nomination for Album of the Year from the Canadian Folk Music Awards. Besides her four solo albums, Linda’s music has been included on twenty-seven other albums, either as a guest artist, or as a …
