The South Austin Moonlighters’ new tune “Deltaman” was born from Lonnie Trevino Jr.’s commute back and forth between Austin, Texas, and his newfound home in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the particular peace he found in the Gulf Coast’s Atchafalaya basin.

Music Worcester celebrates Summer@MW the weekend of July 21 -22 with two concerts that highlight the incredible range of jazz.  On Friday July 21st Grammy Award-winner and MacArthur “Genius” grant recipient Cécile McLorin Salvant plays an intimate concert at JMAC’s BrickBox, one of Worcester’s newest performance spaces, and the legendary John Pizzarelli takes the stage at Mechanics Hall on Saturday July 22. Tickets are available at musicworcester.org.

Randy Steele is an award winning banjo pickin' singer/songwriter from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Randy’s creative music ranges from character based narratives to deeply personal and revelatory. Emotionally powerful, Steele can wake you up with a hard-drivin' song, draw you in with deep lyrics, and have you laughing (or crying) with a compelling confession. Steele independently released a new single, “A Golden Smile,” today!

After two songs that spotlight his emotive vocals and original songwriting, mandolin master and Grascals founder Danny Roberts returns with “My Brown Eyed Darling,” a new single that not only features a guest singer in wife and bassist Andrea Roberts — that’s a 1994 photo of her on the cover — but offers an organic example of the way songs from the bluegrass canon resonate across the decades.  

Bay Area collective Moonalice shares their single “Old & Proud.” Written alongside Nashville songwriter Dylan Altman, who has penned #1 hits for Tim McGraw and Jason Aldean, the call-and-response single confidently embraces aging, and is an anthem for the older generation. The song’s lyrics also tell the first-hand story of Moonalice vocalist Lester Chambers. Lester sings,

“I was born the year 1940, oh, that seems so long ago

Today Peter Lewis, founding member of the legendary San Francisco rock group Moby Grape, shares his new album Imagination.

FIND IT HERE

Imagination arrives through OMAD Records, the boutique label of the album's producer John DeNicola.

Yusuf / Cat Stevens has released a new album of original music today, King of a Land, via BMG / Dark Horse Records. More than a decade in the making, the twelve-song collection serves as a deeply meaningful and moving self-portrait by one of popular music’s most enduring and beloved songwriters - touching on themes of unity, peace, joy, and childlike wonder.

Flushing Town Hall is celebrating Juneteenth this weekend by tributing the unifying sounds of Earth, Wind & Fire!
 
Come one, come all to a night with our featured band, Shining Star Tribute, as they play you through the hits of the mighty elements: “Boogie Wonderland,” “Keep Your Head to the Sky,” “September”...and of course “Shining Star,” and more!
 

When funk icon Bootsy Collins and his wife visited Franklin L. Williams M.S’s Little Kids Rock (now Music Will) children’s music education program in 2011, he knew he would continue his commitment to kids’ music education. Having donated a bass, given the children a bass lesson, and rapped with them while they played the blues, Collins cemented his commitment to the nonprofit’s mission.

Today, the internationally renowned Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona, Queens, announced the official opening date of its new state-of-the-art building, preserving and expanding the legacy and ideals of America’s first Black popular music icon. The Louis Armstrong Center will open on Thursday, July 6.