Masters Of Music
Singer-songwriter Madilyn Bailey went from growing up in Boyceville, Wisconsin — population 1,086, about 38 miles northwest of Eau Claire — to getting 13.5 million subscribers on YouTube, Facebook, TikTok and Instagram for her clever original tunes and covers.
Now she’s bound to get a big new wave of fans,
On the collaborative 2019 project Songs of Our Native Daughters, Amythyst Kiah wrote and sang “Black Myself,” leading her bandmates Allison Russell, Rhiannon Giddens, and Leyla McCalla in a potent anthem about ingrained racism and resilience. The group was creating on the fly, re-centering black stories in roots music.
CORNING, N.Y. (WETM) — George Mann, a folk singer from Ithaca, New York, has been playing classic music to nursing home residents across the country for years. Once the coronavirus pandemic began, Mann had to find out a way to continue this tradition while being socially distanced.
For the past
Patrick Sky, a member of the Sixties Greenwich Village folk scene that launched Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, and many others, died on May 26th in Asheville, North Carolina. Sky had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2017, but according to his wife, folklorist and musician Cathy Larson Sky, Sky
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Over the last couple of decades, Allison Russell has preferred to do her songwriting, singing and playing alongside others. She’s been the consummate collaborator, bringing exceptional emotional intelligence to a series of respected roots groups. In
The Arlington native sat down with KHOU11 anchor Mia Gradney before hosting the 2021 American County Music Awards in Nashville.
HOUSTON — She is the it girl from the place to be.
Country music star Mickey Guyton is a native Texan, born in Arlington and raised in Waco and the