Artists
This year’s edition of the Virginia Key GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance is taking place throughout Miami and Miami Beach and is called GrassRoots Live! Electric Piquete has performed at the last two year’s editions of the festival and will now make it a third year in a row when they take The Wynwood Yard stage on Friday, February 24, 2017, at 9 p.m. Also appearing that evening: Nacho Londono and Uma Galera.
Although country music has been around for years, it is constantly being re-shaped and re-invented by artists who work their socks off to get their well-deserved big break in the music industry. Dawson Reigns is one of those artists.
March is going to be a big month for Eminence Ensemble, the prog-jam sextet from Boulder, Colorado. Eminence Ensemble has just announced their Forbidden Fruit Tour, beginning on March 2nd and ending on March 17th, including shows in Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming.
For the tour finale, Eminence Ensemble is presenting their debut appearance at The Ogden Theatre in Denver, supporting TAUK and Greener Grounds for a very special St. Patrick's Day celebration.
Cory Henry, Brooklyn NY native, is telling everybody he is on his way. He is a two-time Grammy Award-winning keyboardist with musical roots in gospel, jazz and soul. His instrument of choice is the Hammond B-3 organ. Henry’s 2016 release and touring project, The Revival, features his dynamic and improvisational performances of music ranging from old gospel to Stevie Wonder.
It was in Bozeman, Montana that our Kitchen Dwellers first discovered a constant source of musical inspiration near the kitchen, with bluegrass music, and each other. From those free form kitchen picking sessions, their very own chief recipe of a bluegrass style was created. Over the course of their 4 year career the Dwellers have been honored to open for some of their very own musical heroes: Railroad Earth, Greensky Bluegrass, Head for the Hills, Horseshoes and Handgrenades, just to name a few.
Susana Millman's recent release: Alive with the Dead or A Fly on the Wall with a Camera initially only 1000 copies were printed, but these quickly flew off store shelves. We're happy to report another order was recently printed & now available at http://mamarazi.com. Here what some folks are saying about the book:
Constantly working from the knowledge of self-determination, Satsang is set to release their sophomore album on March 20, 2017 with Rootfire Cooperative. The album, Pyramid(s), is a refreshing album ready to activate the masses; accompanying the present minded lyrics is a fuller sound and new-soul vibe.
On the heels of their signing and album announcement last week,Louisiana bilingual pop project, Sweet Crude, has announced an upcoming nationwide tour. Headline dates kick off on April 18th, 2017 at The Record Bar in Kansas City, MO.
World-renowned singer/songwriter/entertainer Dolly Parton continues racking up the honors! In 2014, The Recording Academy inducted Parton's self-penned hit JOLENE into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Now, in 2017, that same song, released as a collaboration with Pentatonix, was awarded a Grammy in the Country Duo/Group Performance category. Watch the collaborative performance here:
