Sweetwater Music Hall, the intimate, all-ages, wheelchair-accessible music venue and nonprofit arts organization at 19 Corte Madera Avenue in Mill Valley, today announces its May–early June concert calendar. Established in 1972, Sweetwater Music Hall presents an array of genres—rock, folk, blues, reggae, pop, experimental and beyond—underscoring its mission to harness the transformative power of live music to inspire change and unite communities.

Wentworth Gallery is honored to present an exclusive collection of works by Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Elvis Costello. Making his highly anticipated art showing, Costello will showcase his creations at two Wentworth Gallery locations on the East Coast.  The artist will appear at Wentworth Gallery in Short Hills Mall on May 3rd from 6:00 - 8:00 pm as well as at the Wentworth Gallery at Tysons Galleria on May 31st from 5:00 - 7:00 pm.

Nashville-via-Sydney singer-songwriter Imogen Clark is getting high octane and back to the nitty gritty with her new album Choking on Fuel. After a breakneck year of non-stop touring, returning to her roots armed with an acoustic guitar, Imogen is rolling out a record that captures the intensity, vulnerability, musical dexterity and vocal power that characterizes her compelling live performances.

As bluegrass aficionados know, the only thing better than hot fiddle playing is hot fiddle playing times two. Twin fiddles have played a prominent role in the genre since the mid 1950s, when artists like Bill Monroe and Mac Wiseman first enlivened their recordings with the distinctive sound.  

Biscuits & Banjos - Rhiannon Giddens’ first-ever festival - unfolded over this past weekend in Durham, N.C.  The sold-out festival of Black music, art and culture offered a one-of-a-kind bespoke festival experience for fans, and was created to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Black Banjo Gathering, celebrating the legacy of the event that launched Giddens’ career and the formation of her band, the Carolina Chocolate Drops.

Louisiana Red Hot Records is proud to announce the release of Corey and the Treme Funktet: Live at Vaughan’s, a blistering live album recorded during the band’s legendary Thursday night residency at Vaughan’s Lounge.

Today, New York-based artist The Bones of J.R. Jones releases his new single “Car Crash,” which appears on his upcoming sixth studio album Radio Waves, out June 20 via Tone Tree Music. Offering a bittersweet embrace of life’s imperfections, the tender new song arrives with a dreamy live performance video that was shot inside a car driving through New York’s scenic Catskills.

Celebrated folk-rock band DISPATCH has released their new single “Whisk Me Away” (PRESS HERE to listen) alongside the announcement of their forthcoming ninth studio album Yellow Jacket, out June 6 via Bomber Records/AWAL Recordings.

Renowned for blending global influences with the raw intimacy of American Primitive blues, guitarist Ryan Lee Crosby has journeyed from his Portsmouth home to the legendary Blue Front Café in Bentonia, Mississippi—the very juke joint founded in the 1940s where Skip James once played—to record his forthcoming album At the Blue Front, set for digital, CD, and cassette release on August 20.

Pedrito Martínez, songwriter and master of the Afro-Cuban folkloric music and the batá drum, will release Ilusión Óptica on May 30 (GroundUP Music). Bill Murray says it best at the top of the album: “I am here as your safety monitor to make sure that you are all prepared, completely ready to take an unforgettable journey on board the latest album entitled llusión Óptica from the very great Pedrito Martinez Group.”