For those who are willing to listen, the old musicians have stories. In blues, they tell of oppression. In folk, they speak of the Dust Bowl, the Great Depression and the oft-forgotten experience of ...
Dave Kennedy, founder of the Roots Music Project, is a gigging musician in a couple of acts, but he didn’t begin playing seriously until his forties. That’s when his kids started going to a Boulder ...
Derrick Tabb, Roots co-founder and executive director, said he was inspired to create the program after his junior-high band director took a special interest in him. “He saved my life,” said Tabb, who ...
The Roots of Music has reached a major milestone with the purchase of a permanent campus in the former site of St. Gabriel Catholic Church in Pontchartrain Park. What began as a six-week summer drum ...
MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: Musician Rhiannon Giddens is on a quest. And the facts of her own life are a compelling metaphor for the path she's forging. Born in 1977 to a Black mother and a white father, ...
Homewood-based Trail Mix Productions, which has produced a mostly acoustic concert series annually, will present its first Trail Mix Roots Music Series show to begin its outdoor season. The Lowest ...
Billy Strings and Sierra Ferrell, 2023 and 2024's Americana Honors & Awards-winning Artists of the Year, share a background as street-busking musicians who played for tens to hundreds of dollars daily ...
The Belleville Roots Music Series presents The Seldom Scene on Saturday, May 7, 8:00 pm at the Belleville Congregational Church Meetinghouse, 300 High Street. The Seldom Scene is an American ...
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