Our good friend and mentor, OSCAR BRAND, one of the last remaining fathers of North American Folk Music, author of 11 best selling books, pioneering star of radio and early television, and a composer for Broadway and film, is celebrating his … Continue reading →
Performing Songwriter‘s June 2009 issue, sent to subscribers and newsstands this week and featuring Pink on the cover, will be the final edition of the 16-year-old publication, Editor & Publisher Lydia Hutchinson announced today. “As sad as change and letting … Continue reading →
NEW YORK, March 18, 2009 —The Clearwater Concert: Creating the Next Generation of Environmental Leaders, a star-studded, one night only concert event celebrating Pete Seeger’s 90th Birthday, will be held on Sunday, May 3, at 7PM, at Madison Square Garden. … Continue reading →
(New York, NY) — A young woman, scaling the Himalayas on foot, flees the Chinese work camp where she was born, her tiny son in tow. A boy, forced to fight in Sudan’s bloody civil war at age six, winds … Continue reading →
The 10-second recording of the folk song “Au Clair de la Lune” was discovered earlier this month in an archive in Paris by a group of American audio historians. It was made, the researchers say, on April 9, 1860, on … Continue reading →
The American Arts Alliance is a national co-sponsor of Arts Advocacy Day and encourages performing arts supporters to come to Washington, D.C. on March 31-April 1, 2008 and take part in the largest organized national arts action summit. Hundreds of … Continue reading →
The US Congress has plans to consider the Performing Rights Act that would grant recording artists and record labels royalties from over-the-air radio play for the first time in history. The royalty would be funded by mandating new fees on … Continue reading →