THROUGH THE LENS: Joy & Resistance at the Newport Folk Festival

Two music industry nonprofits — Bluegrass Ambassadors and ReString Appalachia — are teaming up to raise funds to provide musical instruments to individuals affected by the Central Texas floods in early July. The Chicago-based Bluegrass Ambassadors, founded by the band Henhouse Prowlers, has a mission to "educate and inspire through the

It wasn’t intentional, but once I settled on these six records for this month’s Founders’ Keepers, I realized they consist of two artists from Austin, two from Nashville, and two from the North Carolina Triangle. Those from Music City are, perhaps surprisingly, the least-known, and they provide the

Last time around, I wrote about Karen Pittelman setting the stage for a generation of LGBTQIA+ artists in country and roots music. Paisley Fields is one of the artists from that Queer Country Monthly series whose path is in step with the scene’s general expansion and broader acceptance. This