Gillian Welch is a singer- songwriter, and David Rawlings plays Appalachian music & Bluegrass music, and together they create and play Americana music- Their recordings include Revival (Gillian Welch album) and Time The Revelator.
Sometimes, staring down the apocalypse doesn’t have to result in despair—instead, it can just make you profoundly thankful for everything you’ve had and everything you have yet to lose.
Ingrid Jensen (left) has been blazing a path in the jazz world since before she even graduated from Montreal’s McGill University in 1994. While completing her undergrad studies in jazz performance, the saxophonist and composer penned songs for the debut album of her sister, trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, and the resultant Vernal Fields won a Juno Award. The sisters continue to feed off one another’s creative energy, as evidenced on the Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra’s recent release Harbour (Nettwerk/Justin Time)
silky and dreamy yet playfully adventurous, slightly bluesy twist
Set in a fictional and eponymous bar in Boston USA, Cheers was a long running tv comedy series built around the relationships between the various regular customers and staff. The Bar boasted the logo á place where everybody knows your name´
come follow your art and we´ll cross some borders, from live music to recorded music, from jazz to country to folk and Americana and Spanish folk lore.
we Since looking at a couple of our favourite songwriters yesterday, in Sidetracks & Detours, our writing team, (music-lovers all) have been constantly discussing particular songwriters, such as Townes Van Zandt,, Guy Clark, John Stewart, Nanci Griffith and Mary Chapin-Carpenter (American all). We therefore added a couple of great British song-writers , and the names that fell out in conversation included Gary Hall, Richard Thompson, Elvis Costello, the wonderful late John B Spencer and Julie Matthews.ti
The singer-songwriter genre contains dozens of artists doing wonderful work—often with little recognition in a world grown ever louder and ever more aggressive.
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The Municipal Government of Arrecife will present the Arrecife 2024 Tourism Awards this month during the World Tourism Day gala.
In every piece of music Elliott Smith released, I hear a restlessness I’ve yet to fully pin down
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