GRAMMY Award-winning singer, songwriter and musician Billy Strings is the winner of Best New Headliner/Artist Development Story at the 33rd Annual Pollstar Awards. The all-genre award is Strings’ second Pollstar nod following last year’s win for Breakthrough Artist of the Pandemic.

Ragas, with a jazz twist… The Norwegian Grammy nominated Harpreet Bansal blurs the lines between the North Indian tradition and erratic, playful jazz in Parvat - the wildly free and musically outstanding three-piece movement.

Bozeman's Kitchen Dwellers are thrilled to announce a three-night run at Pine Creek Lodge in Livingston MT June 2-4. Tickets are on sale now at kitchendwellers.com/tour.

From the windy hills of Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa (Wellington, New Zealand), the multi-platinum selling band The Black Seeds have masterfully honed South Pacific soul, by blending deep grooves of reggae, funk, afrobeat and dub into an undeniably infectious mix. Today, the unstoppable eight-piece The Black Seeds return with the invigorating new single “Bring The Sun.” It is the third track released from their upcoming new album due out later this year.
 

Hot Tuna played an intimate acoustic set at The Parker in Fort Lauderdale on Monday evening, delighting the faithful crowd with their intricate brand of blues, jazz, folk and rock. Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame (class of ’96) members, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady treated the audience to two sets of classic Hot Tuna, showcasing Kaukonen’s Piedmont blues fingerstyle guitar with Casady’s lead guitar style bass runs that have entertained fans for over half a century.

The Grahams, lifelong musical and life partners, are pleased to announce the release of Live at Luck Mansion, a 4 song EP recorded live in front of an intimate audience during AMERICANAFEST ‘21 in conjunction with Luck Presents. Last September, Luck Presents, creators of Luck Reunion, teamed up with The Grahams for a studio takeover at 3Sirens, a state of the art recording space owned by the duo that has the soul of a 1920’s social salon.

As the world awakens from the darkness of the global pandemic, many are looking to gather and share in the joy of live music. Kalan Wolfe and Keely Crow-Ka, of “The Shift,” have called on performers from across the country to join them at Departure Festival in Quilcene, Washington on the weekend of August 5th, 6th and 7th 2022.

Tickets are now available for sale at:

https://musicbytheshift.com/departurefestival  

Watson Lake, Prescott Arizona — Welcome to the one-of-a-kind multi-sensory concert experience: the Pure Imagination Festival on May 21st 2022.  Pure Imagination’s mission is to bring diversity of sound and culture to a peerless natural setting. The inaugural festival will showcase a curated cross-section of outstanding music set outdoors against an out-of-this-world landscape in the Granite Dells at Watson Lake, Prescott, Arizona.

GRAMMY-nominated singer, songwriter and musician Gregory Alan Isakov will kick off his spring headline tour next month with shows at Chicago’s Riviera Theatre, Milwaukee’s Pabst Theater, Detroit’s Royal Oak Music Theatre, Atlanta’s The Tabernacle and two nights at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium among many others. Tickets for the tour, which will feature special guests Joe Purdy and Aoife O’Donovan, are on-sale now.

California Roots Music and Arts Festival is excited to return, after a two year hiatus due to COVID-19, on May 26th! For the first time ever Cali Roots has expanded into a four day event of reggae, roots and hip hop music! The expanded event has been curated into an experience to include more music, local food and beverage vendors, added art exhibits, exhibitions and installations, interactive workshops, intimate pop-up performances, on-site greening initiatives, and community focused non-profits to learn about.