Artists

The numbers are in! New Jersey based recording artist, Mara Levine landed soundly in the #1 spot for the month of November on the Folk DJ chart with “You Reap What You Sow,” a bluegrass song with a powerful message that is clearly resonating with radio folks and fans alike this holiday season. 

On February 16, Craft Recordings will release a deluxe edition of one of the most iconic and enduring records in jazz. Celebrating its 60th Anniversary in 2017, Way Out West, alongside Saxophone Colossus, cemented Sonny Rollins' place as one of the top tenor saxophonists of all-time.

Everett Bradley has re-released—re-booted, if you will—his classic 2010 album, with six new tracks. Blending the influences of P-Funk, Sly Stone and other 1970’s and ’80’s funk and soul bands, Holidelic explores the holidays, modern culture and mild family dysfunction in a playful, loving, humorous record that is hardly traditional but a whole lot of fun. This is holiday spirit like you’ve never heard before: Holidelic will get you out of the Andy Williams rut and liberate your Nutcracker.

Free Dirt Records announces the signing of deeply rooted American songwriter Vivian Leva. Her debut solo record, Time Is Everything (featuring Riley Calcagno), will be released on March 2, 2018. This impressive record spans archaic ballads, classic country and honky-tonk, and contemporary Americana, all charged with a hearty emotional punch from this rising star who’s been quietly making a name for herself with some of the most passionate members of the American music community.

Traditions are a major part of the Sturgis Buffalo Chip experience. One of the longest standing includes feeling the amphitheater shake with the roar of V-twins while hearing Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird” blast through the main stage speakers. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, wildly popular with Chip fans, will bring their hits home to the Wolfman Jack Stage in 2018 on Monday, Aug. 6.

Bay Area musicians Jim Nunally and Nell Robinson proudly launch Banjo Boy Coffee in partnership with Deering Banjo Company. Four Exciting & Distinctive Coffees:  UKULELE, FOUR STRING, FIVE STRING and SIX STRING BLEND

Join us for a performance, official launch and coffee tasting at the California Jazz Conservatory on Saturday, January 13th, 2018. Tastings begin at 7:15pm followed by a performance by the Nell & Jim Band at 8:00 p.m. Free Banjo Boy Coffee all evening long!

The wind is whipping down Asheville’s south slope, and the temperature is somewhere in the low teens as the crowd begins to arrive at The Orange Peel for the seventh annual Holiday Hang. Put on by Town Mountain and Amanda Anne Platt & the Honeycutters, the event is a benefit for the local Manna Food Bank and has become quite a tradition in this town.

Just a few short weeks after the Chris Robinson Brotherhood's annual December three-night stand at The Fillmore in San Francisco, they'll set up shop once again in the Bay Area to ring in the New Year with three-nights, December 29, 30 and 31, at Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael. Tickets go on-sale Monday, December 18, 10am PT at https://store.terrapincrossroads.net/tickets.

Raleigh, NC Americana band, New Reveille, who recently signed a label and management deal with Loud & Proud Records, have launched their PledgeMusic store today where fans can pre-order their debut album.

The new album Badlands, from North Dakota Blues-Rock artist Jennifer Lyn, couldn’t come at a better time. Set for release on Feb. 2, 2018, her second album reflects her influences from rock to blues and back again. As a new generation takes the reins, keeping this kind of music alive is needed more than ever to remind us of our own history and preserve the love of this genre for generations to come.  

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