Sierra Ferrell was the big winner at the 2024 Americana Honors & Awards, held Wednesday night at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. The old-timey West Virginia songwriter took home Artist of the Year and Album of the Year for her LP Trail of Flowers. Produced by Eddie Spear and Gary …
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Sure, making one’s late-night television debut is nice, but you really know you made it when you hear your name announced in the dulcet tones of Jeff Goldblum. Nashville’s new guitar hero, the 18-year-old Grace Bowers, performed with her band, the Hodge Podge, on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday night, …
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Tucked deep down in a holler in rural Virginia, along a dirt road just off Route 221, and cradled by tall bull pines amid the Blue Ridge foothills, the annual FloydFest roared to life. And it sounded a whole lot like Maggie Rose. On Saturday, Rose soared through a sunny …
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Over the last year, guitar prodigy Grace Bowers has been showing up on stages from Nashville to Newport. In May of 2023, she joined Gaslight Anthem onstage at the Ryman Auditorium and delivered one of the highlight sets of last summer’s Newport Folk Festival. Now, the 17-year-old player is releasing …
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Under a fingernail moon, surrounded by the silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Highlands, North Carolina, JJ Grey & Mofro took a moment to soak in the beauty of this year’s Bear Shadow music festival. “This song is about my love affair with the ocean,” Grey noted of his …
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