The Performing Arts Alliance is reporting that the House Appropriations Interior Subcommittee, which has jurisdiction over the National Endowment for the Artâs budget, voted this morning to cut the NEAâs FY14 funding to $75 million. This cut is almost 50% … Continue reading →
MONSIEUR DOUMANI Grippy Grappa Monsieur Doumani www.monsieurdoumani.com Straight outta Nicosia, Cyprus, the trio of Monsieur Doumani are three young men on a mission to revitalise Cypriot folk music. Their first release, last yearâs Cyfolk, … Continue reading →
DWIGHT DEVANE and BLAINE WAIDE Drop On Down In Florida Dust-to-Digital 24 www.dust-digital.com In 1981, the Florida Folklife Program released a double-disc, 27 track LP, highlighting African American music traditions, that was based on … Continue reading →
MARTHA REDBONE ROOTS PROJECT The Garden of Love: Songs of William Blake Blackfeet Productions 93001 www.martharedbone.com/ With the knife guitar slashesâ ominous undertones that open this disc, we know that long-ago Londonâs bard, … Continue reading →
SARA WATKINS Sun Midnight Sun Nonesuch 530684 www.nonesuch.com Sara Watkins’ latest is an adventurous delight. Compact, sitting 35 minutes, it is a diverse set of thrills end to end. Sara, of course, plays violin. … Continue reading →
THE DUSTBOWL REVIVAL Carry Me Home Dustbowl Revival www.dustbowlrevival.com Expanding steadily from a string band fronted by lead singer and songwriter/arranger Zach Lupetin that began by playing up and down the West Coast a … Continue reading →
STEVE MARTIN and EDIE BRICKELL Love Has Come For You Rounder 11661-9150 www.rounder.com This collaborative album by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell is as congenial and sunny as you could want, even when the songs … Continue reading →
LE SUPER BORGOU DE PARAKOU The Bariba Sound Analog Africa 071 www.analogafrica.com During the ’60s, like the USA and Britain, Africa was experiencing an explosion of young, modern, cutting-edge bands, all of them seemingly … Continue reading →
North Carolinian recording artists are pulling together to record a compilation of protest songs in support of North Carolinaâs âMoral Mondayâ protests, which have been held for the past 12 consecutive Mondays in Raleigh, NC. Calling themselves the North Carolina … Continue reading →
Introduction Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, “I’m going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that’s tough. I am going to snow anyway.”   – Maya Angelou, from Conversations with Maya Angelou It’s … Continue reading →
