This year stands to set a new record for high temperatures with the sizzling heat FRANKY & THE ALL NIGHTERS plan to generate with their newly announced “Hot Vegas Nights” artist residencies in both Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Today (April 1), they’ve also released a new single and video, “Hot Vegas Nights.” Listen to it HERE and watch the video HERE.

As the calendar turns its page to March 30th, we at Grateful Web join music enthusiasts worldwide in celebrating the 60th birthday of Tracy Chapman, a figure whose melodies and lyrics have painted the landscape of modern folk and rock music with strokes of genius and authenticity. Chapman, with her guitar in hand, has been a beacon of social and emotional storytelling, her music a vessel carrying messages of love, struggle, and justice to the hearts of listeners across generations.

With five decades of music-making to her credit, multi-GRAMMY nominee Laurie Lewis has emerged as both a successor and contemporary of the many greats in bluegrass, old-time, and folk music. Unafraid to venture beyond established boundaries, she has carved out her place as a uniquely singular vocalist, songwriter, instrumentalist, and frontwoman in genres revered for their adherence to tradition, authenticity, and the canon of the forebearers.

For nearly three decades, the New Orleans Klezmer All Stars’ wildly original sound – with its Crescent City-steeped aesthetic and endless dry wit – has remained a cornerstone of one of the most unique and culturally significant live music scenes in the world. It’s also spent much of that time evolving – as evidenced by Tipish, the band's first studio album in nearly a decade.

The Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame will explore the founding of America’s most influential Jazz label with “The All Seeing Eye: Blue Note Records Through the Lens of Francis Wolff.” Curated by the Museum Collective with Blue Note Records, the exhibit will feature some of the 20,000 photographs from Blue Note co-founder Francis Wolff. It will open to the public on May 1, 2024, inside the Boch Center Wang Theatre. Tours are available now at FARHOF.org.

Gibson has been shaping the sound of music since 1894, when Orville Gibson designed and built his earliest-known musical instrument in his workshop in Kalamazoo, Michigan. 130 years later, you can still play it and it sounds better than ever. The innovative and forward-thinking carved top design that revolutionized the mandolin and guitar world delivering a louder, more durable, more playable instrument, remains the DNA of every Gibson.

Today, Kaufman Music Center announces the 25th annual New York Guitar Festival, which will be held at KMC’s esteemed venue, Merkin Hall from June 14-15th, 2024. The festival is co-presented by Kaufman Music Center, World Music Institute, New York Guitar Festival, and New Sounds Live.

For her first new single in 10 years, Nashville-based singer, songwriter and flatpicking guitarist Rebecca Frazier recruited some heavy hitters, starting with co-writers Jon Weisberger and Bob Minner, who helped pen “Make Hay While the Moon Shines.” Then she stepped into the studio with legends Béla Fleck (banjo), Sam Bush (mandolin), Stuart Duncan (fiddle), Barry Bales (bass), Josh Swift (dobro) and Shelby Means (harmony vocals).

Today, Yukon-based bluegrass band The Lucky Ones officially begin a new chapter with the release of their new EP A Nickel For The Fiddler, available on all digital platforms.

On the heels of two singles, "Since The Farm Got Sold" and "Fools Gold," the group is offering one more preview with "Waiting On A Paycheck," a high-and-lonesome homage to their blue collar roots that can be traced back to Jimmie Rodgers.

On his last release, Sweethearts—an all-encompassing tribute to The Byrds’ classic, Sweetheart of the Rodeo, which Glide Magazine called “Tender, faithful renditions that capture the groundbreaking character of the original album, just as his own versions are distinctive"—upstate New York recording artist Christian Parker wanted to prove his skills as an astute music student.