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This week's batch of new music features songs from Luke Combs, Shelby Lynne, Becky Buller and more.

Lucinda Williams, Drive-By Truckers, Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda and Antonio Sanchez Trio and more are on the first list of those performing at the three-day bluegrass and roots festival Sept.

Grammy-Award winner Aoife O’Donovan has released her new solo album, All My Friends, today. The 9-song collection - O’Donovan’s first self-produced LP - is inspired by the passage of the 19th amendment and the evolving landscape of women’s rights in America over the past century.

Just prior to the 2020 shutdown, 10-time IBMA award winning fiddler/singer/songwriter Becky Buller and Grammy winning singer/songwriter Aoife O'Donovan collaborated to create this air of wistful longing for mental, emotional and spiritual rest. “Jubilee”   fell into the dark dearth of the pandemic years, laying dormant until the FreshGrass Foundation commissioned Becky to write a performance piece for debut at their 2023 Bentonville, AR, festival.

The International Folk Music Awards honored the best song, album, and artist of work released in 2023 and presented lifetime achievement awards topeople and organizations supporting folk music.