Award-winning Arkansas gospel & folk music singer/songwriter CAROLYN CARTER began singing and playing music as a very small child in eastern Arkansas. Like many folk and gospel singers, her music began with songs she learned in church. She wrote her first songs as a teenager. Carolyn continued singing as a young mom while raising three […]
Anyone not familiar with the music of Bill Staines is in for a special treat. Singing mostly his own songs, he has become one of the most popular and durable singers on the folk music scene today, performing nearly 200 concerts a year and driving over 65,000 miles annually. He weaves a blend of gentle […]
THE YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKERS perform original songs and tunes inspired by the classic hillbilly, country-duo, and old-time musical traditions--and also mines this same repertoire for forgotten gems that deserve to be heard again. Based in Soldiers Grove, WI, the Sapsuckers (Nikki Grossman, guitar, fiddle, and vocals; Joe Hart, guitar, mandolin, and vocals) perform frequent concerts, as well as […]
From the salvaged sounds of American juke joints, back porches, honky tonks, and rock clubs, THE SUITCASE JUNKET conjures an entirely new sound on his essential rock collection Pile Driver (out April 21, Signature Sounds Recordings). The Suitcase Junket is MATT LORENZ: artist, tinkerer, swamp yankee, one-man band. His is the road-worn voice rising over […]
Tickets are available through Brown Paper Tickets- click on the link. Kicking off the August LAMPLIGHTER SESSION: PETER MULVEY “Peter Mulvey is one of the most accomplished guitarists you’re ever likely to hear… utterly original… it is nigh on impossible to explain him to the uninitiated… his intelligent and sometimes complex songs engage both hemispheres […]
