Amos Perrine

Longtime ND photographer Kirk Stauffer is a South by Southwest veteran. So much so that in preparation for making his yearly pilgrimage to Austin to catch the sprawling 10-day festival, he makes a spreadsheet containing the names, locations, and times of the events he wants to catch. That is before

For one four-day weekend in the spring, when the dogwoods are blossoming, music lovers from all over the world and of virtually every genre converge on Knoxville, Tennessee, to attend the Big Ears Festival. With a dozen indoor venues that stretch from one end of downtown to the other, none

The 10th Big Ears Festival is set to take over Knoxville, Tennessee, for four days beginning this Thursday. Its unparalleled presentation of the world’s most invigorating artists from a multitude of genres, including roots, defiantly in the heart of Appalachia has made it unquestionably the boldest and most dynamic

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