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Port Fairy Folk Festival unveils the first look at its 2022 lineup Emma Donovan Look out 2022, Port Fairy Folk Festival is back. While Miss ‘Rona threw a spanner in the works for the festival’s 2021 instalment, the cherished Port Fairy Folk Festival has announced a triumphant full-scale return in 2022.  The 45th iteration of the festival will welcome some of the best musicians from home and abroad to its sunny Victorian shores, including Baby et Lulu, the UK’s Jon Boden, Scotland’s Elephant Sessions, as well as a full bill of US artists including Court...

  It’s always illuminating to ask an artist how they understand music, but Eli West’s perspective is nothing short of ground-breaking. A trained designer, he sees music architecturally, visualizing his compositions spatially. It’s a highly unusual way to think about music, tied to his verdant natural world of the Pacific Northwest. On his new album, Tapered Point of Stone, due out April 23, 2021, West lays out original songs and tunes like houses built by hand, weaving their melodies into the setting of acoustic roots music that first inspired him. Recorded in 2020, just before every...

... Songwriter Brad Cook once told journalist David Menconi that "The older I get, the more I think that we didn't choose North Carolina, it chose us." Brad and his brother Phil moved from Wisconsin, formed the power folk band Megafaun in Durham, joined Hiss Golden Messenger and generally helped build a vibrant contemporary scene. Brad called the move and the community “the greatest thing that ever happened to us." Mike “M.C.” Taylor, the singer-songwriter mastermind behind Hiss Golden Messenger, one of the national breakouts from Durham and a current Grammy nominee, is quoted in a ne...

Searching Within, Mandolin Orange’s Andrew Marlin Rolls Out Two Bewitching New Solo Album Fable & Fire | Thirty Tigers; Feb. 19 Andrew Marlin is accustomed to spending the bulk of his time on the road. Since the late aughts—alongside his wife and musical partner, Emily Frantz—he has led the beloved Chapel Hill roots outfit, Mandolin Orange. But, as for so many others, the past year has kept him largely confined to the same spaces around his home, a restriction he admits has frustrated his ability to source lyrical inspiration for his songs. “When I’m traveling and ...

Need Valentine's Day Plans? Try A Date Night With Front Row Boston This husband and wife duo in Mandolin Orange will set the perfect tone for Valentine's Day. February 8, 2021 If your idea of the perfect Valentine’s Day is catching live music, Front Row Boston is the perfect pandemic work-around — bringing the music right to you. Now we’re going to help you with the bigger issue... which performance sends the right message about your current relationship status, the one that perfectly conveys "I love (or like) you" exactly this much? See below for some great suggestions of Front Row Bo...