🌎🎶 No New “FairWell Fest” for 2026

📰 Major independent country mega festival FairWell Fest in Redmond, Oregon will not be returning in 2026. There's also good indication that it will not be returning at all after first being held in 2023....

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🌎🎶 CMA CEO Sarah Trahern Retirement Ends an Era. Let’s Hope It Starts a New One

📰 Sarah Trahern's tenure at the CMA wasn't really marked with any especially remarkable achievements or catastrophic mistakes. She wasn't really vilified by purists or lauded by the industry....

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🌎🎶 All in the Sabar Family: Aba Diop Recasts a Tradition for New Ears

📰 Aba Diop Family (2025) Family is a courageous step forward for Senegalese percussionist Aba Diop, who repositions the wonderful sabar drum set at the…...

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🌎🎶 Walters Brings Warm Island Pulse On Ti Love

📰 David Walters is set to release his new album Ti Love on January 30, 2026, through Heavenly Sweetness. The project is his first full-length in…...

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🌎🎶 The Montvales share “World of Trouble” from new album

📰 Cincinnati folk duo The Montvales have announced their third album, Path of Totality, arriving March 20 via Free Dirt. Reuniting with producer Mike Eli LoPinto, the duo shares the haunting lead single and video, “World of Trouble.” Written during the 2024 eclipse amidst national upheaval, the track ...

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🌎🎶 Ernest Tubb Record Shop Closes AGAIN Amid Management Change

📰 The ongoing saga of the historic Ernest Tubb Record Shop on Lower Broadway in Nashville just hit another devastating snag. It closed again on Thursday afternoon (1-15) after opening in October....

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🌎🎶 Georgia Shackleton announces new album “From the Floorboards” and shares ‘Ice King’

📰 Marking 125 years since Ernest Shackleton’s Discovery expedition, Georgia Shackleton announces her new album, From the Floorboards featuring a violin crafted from the explorer’s own floorboards. Accompanied by a haunting live performance of "Ice King" filmed aboard the RRS Discovery, it follows her ...

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🌎🎶 Album Review – Emily Scott Robinson’s “Appalachia”

📰 What kind of towering power is music capable of? To bask in the audience of Emily Scott Robinson's voice and songs, you feel like anything is possible through the marriage of words and melody....

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🌎🎶 Clamores Turns 45 And Gets “Al Compás” With Flamenco Fire

📰 Madrid’s Sala Clamores (Calle Alburquerque) will mark its 45th anniversary with Clamores Al Compás, a flamenco-focused concert series. The shows will run throughput February, March,…...

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🌎🎶 Gail Swanson Salutes Rebel Mom In New Single “My Mama Marched”

📰 (headline image: Gail Swanson Photo by Bruce Forrester) Maui, Hawaii-based singer-songwriter Gail Swanson has released a new single, “My Mama Marched,” a tribute to…...

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🌎🎶 Song Review – Hardy, Tim McGraw, Eric Church, Morgan Wallen – “McArthur”

📰 A unique collaboration that gets your attention, "McArthrur" matches up slightly strange bedfellows to tell an epic story across generations, while remaining starkly relevant to a contemporary audience....

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🌎🎶 Fela Kuti Grammy Tribute Hits Los Angeles This Saturday Night

📰 Los Angeles will host a live band event that honors Fela Kuti’s Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award on Saturday, January 31, at The Paramount. The show…...

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🌎🎶 Bernhard Wöstheinrich and Rainer Frey Unveil Polyphony Performance Series 019 20251118

📰 Electronic musicians Bernhard Wöstheinrich and Rainer Frey have released Polyphony Performance Series 019 20251118. The album documents the 19th concert in their ongoing Polyphony series.…...

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🌎🎶 Album Review – Low Gap’s “Geneva”

📰 'Geneva" feels like their official arrival, a pronouncement of their attempt to put songs first without sacrificing appeal, and to be one of the preeminent new bands boldly striking out of Appalachia to earn listeners around the globe....

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🌎🎶 Rural Music Saved from Extinction

📰 British writer and musician John Phillpott examines the work of ‘the collectors’ who helped to ensure the survival of a rural tradition… The main reason…...

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🌎🎶 Rudolstadt Gets A Fresh Spin For 2026: New Stages, Same Big Folk Energy

📰 Rudolstadt Festival will return July 2 5, 2026. The event is set to bring world music concerts, workshops, discussions, and a large children’s program to venues…...

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🌎🎶 Drayton Farley Announces New Album “A Heavy Duty Heart”

📰 Declared a favorite modern songwriter by distinguishing music fans, Drayton Farley has taken inspiration from fellow Alabaman songwriters like Jason Isbell and amassed a song catalog that is the envy of many....

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🌎🎶 A Lins Through Time: Keberle Honors a Brazilian Icon

📰 Ryan Keberle & Collectiv do Brasil Choro das Águas (Alternate Side Records, 2025) On Choro das Águas, trombonist Ryan Keberle and his São Paulo-based…...

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🌎🎶 Out to Sea

📰 Folksy but hard-rocking, “Le Pêcheur & Le Dôme De Verre” by Hélianthème, a French band that started out as renowned buskers, blends surging rhythms and…...

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🌎🎶 Mixtape: KLOF No. 71 (Folk, Ambient, Experimental, Alternative)

📰 This week’s mixtape spotlights Ye Vagabonds’ latest album, All Tied Together, alongside Philadelphia’s Michael Cormier-O’Leary and Bill Callahan’s final preview of his upcoming LP. Dive into Marta Del Grandi’s art-pop landscapes, plus new sounds from Hen Ogledd, Jana Horn, and Pefkin. Featuring addi...

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🌎🎶 The Monday Morning Brew #140

📰 Another Brew playlist, ft. Swelt, Ye Vagabonds, Damien Jurado, Joe Harvey-Whyte & Geir Sunstøl, Chris Brain, Little Mazarn, Quest Ensemble, Benedicte Maureseth & Ensemble neoN, Marta Del Grandi, Penny Arcade, Mike Tod, Barry Walker Jr., Balladeste, Ana Silvera & Saied Silbak, Maz O’Conno...

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