Amos Perrine

The Outlaw Country Cruise (OCC), like the Cayamo cruise that's the subject of last week's column, is a self-contained music festival on a ship, but with an emphasis, as its name suggests, on outlaw country. By all accounts of those who have been on board, it

Since 2008, Cayamo, the annual cruise billing itself as "A Journey Through Song," has gained a well-deserved reputation for bringing together a rather eclectic group of roots musicians for a weeklong sail through the Caribbean. This year’s edition embarked on Feb. 10 from Miami with stops in

What is Ameripolitan? The Ameripolitan Awards Weekender website's list of nominees for the 2023 honors ends with a note defining the term as "a word that represents the different heritage of roots music that inform the artists that you see here. Much of the music is hard

The annual conference of music organization Folk Alliance International (FAI) is the world’s largest gathering of the folk music community. Folk music crosses a diverse array of roots music, including Appalachian, Americana, blues, bluegrass, Celtic, Cajun, global roots, old-time, singer-songwriter, spoken word, traditional, zydeco, and the many combinations thereof.

During 2022, Mountain Stage presented 24 shows, six of which were away from its home in Charleston, West Virginia, including Boston and its first visit to Kansas. On those 24 shows, Mountain Stage presented 117 roots performers, 11 of whom were international, to a live audience from 45 states and

I thought that last year’s column about vinyl collecting would be my last in an occasional series of them, but a lot has happened during the past year that warrants the attention of all roots music fans who are also into vinyl. Specifically: 1) The announced construction of three