Hilary Saunders

Despite a 30-degree drop in temperature over the course of the weekend, the FreshGrass Festival | Bentonville returned to the small northwest Arkansas town to deliver two days of innovative and exciting roots music. The burgeoning festival brought a wide range of music fans and attendees to The Momentary museum; and

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The FreshGrass Foundation (No Depression’s nonprofit publisher) and Silkroad announced a new collaboration today, in which the two organizations will partner to create a complete program of new music titled The American Railroad. Founded by 18-time Grammy award-winning cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 1998, Silkroad is a multi-faceted arts organization

The annual FreshGrass Festival — produced by No Depression’s nonprofit publisher, the FreshGrass Foundation — celebrated a giant return to live music this past weekend. After pausing for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the three-day festival roared back with more than two dozen roots music performers across four stages.

Renowned Texas singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith has died in Nashville at the age of 68, Rounder Records has confirmed. No cause of death was announced. Griffith, who released 18 studio albums (two of her final three came out on Rounder) over the course of her five-decade career, performed in a range