Mary Chapin Carpenter News

Five-time Grammy winner Mary Chapin Carpenter performs an acoustic set in her sixth appearance on Mountain Stage since 1987.

In a city full of singers, Maura O'Connell remains one of Nashville's hidden treasures.

Hey, Bubba, that band was good! Eight bars into the intro, which was so up and pumped it sounded like a finale, Pat Green's band established itself as the real Steamboat Days opener this year.

Kate Wolf was a welcome presence in the late '70s and mid-'80s folk scene. Her blend of folk, country and pop helped pave the way for artists like Nanci Griffith and Mary-Chapin Carpenter.

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Mary Chapin Carpenter was part of a small movement of folk-influenced country singer/songwriters of the late '80s. Although many of these performers never achieved commercial success, Carpenter was able to channel her anti-Nashville approach into chart success and industry awards by the early '90s. Carpenter was born and raised in Princeton, NJ, ...

A group of singer-songwriters, including Mary Chapin Carpenter and Caroline Herring, perform at the Welty Centennial Concert in honor of the legendary writer.

New Stage Theatre gets into the Eudorapalooza spirit with The Ponder Heart, a stage production of one of the legendary Miss Welty's stories.

Three-time Grammy Award winning bassist Edgar Meyer will finish off Lawrence University's 2008-09 Artist Series with a performance at 8 p.m. Friday, in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel.

Here in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the hints of a new season are everywhere. The dull brown fields of winter are beginning to turn green, and the daffodils have been blooming for nearly two weeks.

When I learned last week that John Cephas - the seminal Piedmont Blues guitarist, longtime musical collaborator of Phil Wiggins and treasured Washington-area musician - had died, I immediately remembered the ...

When times are tough, it's always both a delicate and a difficult task to convince lawmakers that the arts are worth continued support and funding.

Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood are enjoying enormous success on the country charts these days, headlining arena tours and selling millions of albums along the way.

February is awards month. As in Grammys and Oscars. Are you one of those shallow people who look forward to an evening in your sweatpants with a takeout dinner, possibly a dog or cat in your lap, your phone ...

My initial intention this week was to reach back into the very early '80s, when the popularity of country-pop was at an all-time high and crossover artists were the norm, not the exception.

President-elect Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, arrive at the inaugural concert on the Mall two days before Mr.

Anytime one has the opportunity to listen to a favorite musical artist discuss his or her craft, it's a treat.

I'm still pulling out CDs from my collection at home, listening to music I haven't heard in a while and reminiscing about what was happening in my life when the album was new.

10 through March 6, at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church Gallery, 2931 Kingston Pike.

As I write, we are in the middle of that dreamy week - after Christmas, but just before New Year's - when nothing gets done at work, parties take place on "school nights" and children go bonkers with freedom ...