Greg Brown News

Greg Brown's literate, thoughtful musings on the season beat mindless, piped-in carols any day.

Timothy Mason Promoter, Hezekiah Stone's Coffeehouse What Mason is listening to: 1. Anything from ' Going Back to Brooklyn ,' by Dave Van Ronk 2. ' Don't Test My Love ' and ' Hannibal ,' by Dan Bern 3. ' Billy from the Hills ,' by Greg Brown 4. ' Hymns for the Exiled ,' by Anais Mitchell 5. ' Working Chap ,' by Enoch Kent 6. An archived Old Vienna ...

Known for his humorous storytelling and thundering growl of a voice, folk singer Greg Brown will perform a sold-out show Dec.

Artvoice's weekly round-up of events to watch out for the week, including our editor's pick: folk duo The Pines, who come to The Ninth Ward at Babeville on Thursday, December 10th.

Submitted by rocker419 on Wed, 12/02/2009 - 16:27. They've announced the headliners for next season's Gamble Rogers Folk Festival and it looks like a good one! Artists like Ralph Stanley, Loudon Wainwright III, Janis Ian, the John Cowan Band, Pierce Pettis, Sam Pacetti, Patty Larkin, Greg Brown, and a handful of other great folk artists will be ...

John Hammond performs as part of the "American Troubadours, Vol. 1" show at Chico State University's Laxson Auditorium on Nov.

Much has been made about the lore of crossroads in history and in music. The English used to bury criminals at crossroads, a final resting place outside of town for those outside of the law.

With an achingly nostalgic voice that gently rasps about lost love and better times, the daughter of folk icon Greg Brown has become an important artist in her own right.

Folk singer Greg Brown performs Thursday at the Kent State Folk Festival. Kent -- Gravelly voiced Greg Brown, bluegrass master Del McCoury, former Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and Country Joe McDonald are among the headliners for this year's 43rd annual Kent State Folk Festival.

My column this week is about my recent conversation with Ani DiFranco , who happens to be one of my all-time favorite musicians.

Iowa City folk singer/songwriter Pieta Brown, daughter of Grammy-nominated folk singer Greg Brown, has signed with Red House Records.

'Letters From a Flying Machine' is no less than the seventh Signature Sounds release from the compulsively prolific Peter Mulvey, a quirkily literary, stubbornly original artist disguised as an ordinary folk singer.

Red House Records is keeping it all in the family. The St. Paul-based roots and folk music label has signed Pieta Brown, the daughter of longtime Red House artist and founder Greg Brown.

Proceeds from a new Greg Brown DVD will help Corridor artists affected by the 2008 flood.

Last week, we mentioned two concerts on Saturday, Aug. 8, but we really only talked about one of them.

In 1985, Radoslav Lorkovic played at the first Blues Fest. At last year's festival, Radoslav was the piano man with the Holmes Brothers.

As an Allman Brothers member and former Eric Clapton sideman, Derek Trucks has proved himself the best young blues-influenced rock guitarist on the planet .