3 hrs ago | Seattle Times
‘Greetings from Tim Buckley’: a meeting of father, son legacies
'Greetings from Tim Buckley,' with Penn Badgley, Imogen Poots, Ben Rosenfield. Directed by Daniel Algrant, from a screenplay by Algrant, David Brendel and Emma Sheanshang.
7 hrs ago | The Waterloo Region Record
Ennis performs annual Merrick Jarrett concert
The Newfoundland-based, Celtic-folk duo is returning to Folk Night at the Registry on Saturday to draw the curtain on the popular acoustic series' seventh season.
10 hrs ago | New Statesman
Once I Was An Eagle by Laura Marling: Whenever power emerges, there's a sense of innocence lost
Laura Marling's album titles have a certain ring: Alas, I Cannot Swim; I Speak Because I Can; A Creature I Don't Know, and now, the meter-wrecking Once I Was An Eagle .
15 hrs ago | Uttoxeter Advertiser
Folk stars set for Conkers festival
SOME of the country's top folk acts are set to grace the stage at an acclaimed music festival in the heart of the National Forest later this summer.
19 hrs ago | Now Toronto
Inaugural fest features big-name shows, workshops and panels
The writer/actor/teacher, who runs SoulOTheatre, has been an impassioned advocate of one-person shows since her nana took her to see Lily Tomlin's The Search For Signs Of Intelligent Life In The Universe in the 80s.
19 hrs ago | This Is North Devon
Multi instrumentalist, Phil Beer, heads to the George Hotel in South Molton
The top-flight fiddler, best known as being one half of acoustic duo Show Of Hands, also plays in the all-star line-up, Feast Of Fiddles.
PHOTOS / RECAP: Devendra Banhart @ Regency Ballroom, SF 5/21/13
What happens when every guy at your coffee shop starts rocking long hair and a beard? If you're Devendra Banhart , you ditch the hippie costume, start playing around with a synthesizer, and release a new album.
Despite prolific output with the Gourds over the past two decades, co-frontman Kevin Russell deserves to have the term "side project" dropped from his other local group given the merits of Gulf Coast Museum .
Details: The concert will feature several affiliate organizations of the Gaston Arts Council.
Cam Penner and Jon Wood search for songwriting catharsis
It's also going to be slightly shocking for those familiar with Penner's earlier records, marked as they were by well-crafted story songs that drew on the former Albertan's work with the homeless and dispossessed.
Xaque Gruber: Remembering Joni Mitchell's First Decade of Music As She Turns 70
Though I remember being assigned to sing "I've looked at life from both sides now" in the third grade choir, it wasn't until purchasing 1991's Night Ride Home when I fully jumped aboard the Joni Mitchell train.
Dallas exhibit reunites art JFK saw before death
Artist Jack Zajac said learning earlier this year that his bronze sculpture was among the last works of art ever seen by President John F. Kennedy left him feeling "reverential." Zajac's small sculpture of a bound goat was among a collection of impressive artwork that decorated the president's Fort Worth hotel suite in hopes of creating something ... (more)
McLeans host screening of - American Troubadour'
The Strand Theatre, 345 Main St., will host a special screening of "Don McLean: American Troubadour," with special guests Don and Patrisha McLean, Sunday, June 2, at 6 p.m. Don McLean is one of America's most enduring singer/songwriters and is forever associated with his classic hits "American Pie," "Vincent," "Crying" and "Castles in the Air." ... (more)
LIVE: Peggy & Pete Seeger @ the Eighth Step at Proctors, 5/12/13
Peggy Seeger said it best with a new song that she had penned for her brother Pete's 94th birthday.
Museum of the City of New York Announces Folk Concert, 6/20
The Museum of the City of New York today announced a star-studded line-up of musicians and writers for a special concert to benefit the upcoming exhibition Folk City.
They record and drink with Shane MacGowan from The Pogues, count Niall Horan from One Direction and Bressie as celebrity fans and friends, have recorded with film star, Patrick Bergin, performed at the recent Cycle Against Suicide and guested with Joe Rooney on Celebrity Come Dine with Me Ireland, playing for Rosanna Davison.
'The thick Aran sweaters which became their trademark' a the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem in New York in 1961.
Indigo Girls bring symphony tour to Ruth Eckerd Hall
For the first time ever, Grammy-winning folk duo the Indigo Girls, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, will embark on a national symphony tour in the United States.
Popa Chubby, 'Classic Albums Live,' 'Big Shot'...
ArtsQuest's Musikfest Cafe has added blues guitarist Popa Chubby, "Classic Albums Live - The Beatles," "The Music of Simon & Garfunkel performed by AJ Swearingen & Jonathan Beedle," "Big Shot - The Ultimate Billy Joel Experience" and Bethlehem-based rockers Billy Bauer Band to its summer lineup.
NY judge refuses to dismiss Kerry Kennedy case
A town judge on Tuesday refused to dismiss a drugged-driving case against Kerry Kennedy, ex-wife of Gov.