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“Not Our First Goat Rodeo” is a follow up to 2011’s “Goat Rodeo Sessions,” which won a Grammy Award for best folk album in 2013. Which seems a bit unfair to all those folk musicians out there, because I’m not sure it’s really folk music, exceptional as it is, but also because al…
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“The year didn’t happen how we thought it would,” says Andrew Laite. While that’s the case for all of us, it’s particularly true for him and Josh Sandu…
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" ... infectious, poignant, and invigorating"
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There has always been a streak of rebellion running through the musical world, with artists seeking to be new and different. Bill Monroe was one of tho…
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It’s unfortunate that, for many Canadians, a knowledge of Afro-Latin jazz begins with Tito Puente and ends with the Buena Vista Social Club. Good (and …
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If you needed a reminder of how big the world really is—and, these days, who doesn’t—you’ll find it in Leyla McCalla. Born in New York to Haitian paren…
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Will Carter, the founder of Clifftop, perhaps the premiere old-time festival in the world, has said that old-time music is about “that tradition of par…
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Galax, Virginia, is one of the most important musical communities in North America that you’ve never heard of. It’s at the heart of a part of the world…
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