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During this age of COVID-19, touring musicians across the land have been creative with the process of bringing music to their fans while maintaining some ability to generate revenue. Live video streams have been a ubiquitous way to accomplish both, and more recently pod-separated, limited attendance performances have emerged.

  Article Contributed by Alan Sheckter | Published on Wednesday, April 28, 2021 During this age of COVID-19, touring musicians across the land have been creative with the process of bringing music to their fans while maintaining some ability to generate revenue. Live video streams have been a ubiquitous way to accomplish both, and more recently pod-separated, limited attendance performances have emerged. In the San Francisco Bay Area, KC Turner Presents adapted to the COVID health protoco...

This weekends cutNscratch column features new music from acts with Roanoke-area roots. Tad Dickens / The Roanoke Times Let’s kick off this week with something a little different. It’s springtime for COVID, y’all! As I write this from my remote work location at home, I spy a nice day out my window, and that’s the trend. Winter is pretty much over. Daylight Savings Time starts Sunday. The governor has lifted the restrictions that hampered a lot of indoor dining and live music....

  Article Contributed by gratefulweb | Published on Thursday, March 11, 2021 This past year has been a challenging one for everyone across the globe.  The music industry has been hit especially hard with small venues closing, touring musicians unable to perform and uncertainty around when the concert industry will be able to open back up again. Despite this, musicians are still creating and writing new material and many folks – professional musicians and those who just enjoy playing –...

Ervin Stellar made the long journey, physically and musically, from New York City to Nashville a few years ago. And his forthcoming release, Nothing to Prove, actually proves quite a lot. Musically, it vibes Americana but the songwriting is well steeped in the folk tradition. He's a formidable songwriter and musician who has great taste in music, evident in his cover selections (read more about those in our interview with him below).

  Article Contributed by David Atchley | Published on Tuesday, January 26, 2021 All the world’s a vibration, yet music remains in the abstract, lurking in the formless world of potential, eagerly awaiting the inspiration of someone to bring it to form. The musician, in answer to this calling, illuminates what was once invisible, carrying us into the mind and heart of a moment, an emotion, or to the edges of the universe itself. Like an astronaut, these bards reveal a dimension of being, ...

Jay Psaros latest release, an eight-song LP “The Trees Beyond the Town” once again sees Lorne Entress in the producers chair with an all-star line up of musicians.  Kevin Barry on guitar (Rosanne Cash, Peter Wolf), Sam Kassirer on keys (Josh Ritter, Joe Pug) and Jesse Williams on Bass.  Continuing with the theme of diversity, the songs have influences ranging from Americana, Blues, Jazz, Jam Bands and Folk…all rooted in the tradition of the Singer/Songwriter.  Grateful Web is premierin...

  When I first heard Jorma Kaukonen’s acoustic album, The River Flows, my being instantly welled up to the sound, welcoming it like an ocean does a river. With tears filling my eyes, the quality of the music made me realize—There’s something about greatness that opens the soul to living. What was it that I was experiencing which caused me to think such things, to feel such sentiment? John and Jorma’s touch begs the asking. Released on Christmas Day, 2020, following an exclusive LP re...

  This December, Grateful Web had the opportunity to catch up with guitarist, singer and songwriter Michael Falzarano. Michael is a tenured veteran of legendary bands Hot Tuna, a regular contributor at Jorma Kaukonen’s Fur Peace Ranch, and bandleader of his own long-standing Memphis Pilgrims and Dead Tribute group, The Englishtown Project. 2020 has been challenging for musicians who perform dozens if not hundreds of shows annually as their lifeblood. Michael’s time off the road has been ...