Here’s another band we heard and met at NW Folklife. Nettle Honey is an old-time quartet from Seattle, WA that plays equal parts classic standards and original compositions. Their sound is as pure as the Northwest rain that falls on her mist-shrouded mountains and fills her roaring rivers. They’ve taken pure-core Appalachian chops and applied [...]
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Nettle Honey: Wild Greens and the Old Path (MP3)
Posted in acoustic, banjo, female singer, festival, fiddle, male singer, old-time, singer-songwriter, traditional, tagged acoustic, banjo, female singer, festival, fiddle, male singer, old-time, singer-songwriter, traditional on June 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Colleen Raney: Lark (MP3)
Posted in acoustic, Celtic, female singer, festival, flute, Irish, mandolin, Scottish, traditional, tagged acoustic, Celtic, female singer, festival, flute, Irish, mandolin, Scottish, traditional on June 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The dark and rainy Pacific Northwest continues to produce an endless stream of brilliant folk music, and it was on display everywere at the recent Northwest Folkife Festival. The seething mass of humanity that is NW Folkife was held recently in downtown Seattle, in the shadow of her famous landmark, the Space Needle. Folkies came [...]
San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival
Posted in acoustic, bluegrass, festival, old-time, tagged acoustic, bluegrass, festival, old-time on January 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The 11th annual San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival (SFBOT), a nine-day festival occuring at various locations around the Bay Area, will happen February 12-21, 2010. Featuring some of the most talented musicians on the Americana and roots music scene today, the Festival comprises over 30 shows at numerous small clubs around the Bay Area, [...]
Pickathon Is Coming!
Posted in acoustic, banjo, bluegrass, Canadian, festival, fiddle, male singer, mandolin, old-time, rock, singer-songwriter, traditional, tagged acoustic, banjo, bluegrass, blues, Cajun, Canadian, female singer, festival, fiddle, male singer, mandolin, old-time, rock, singer-songwriter, traditional on July 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It’s time to start planning for Pickathon 2009, which happens this year on July 31—August 2 at Pendarvis Farm just outside Portland, Oregon. Fiddlefreak attended a couple years back and was deeply wowed by its unique combination of down-home folksy vibe and youthful alternative energy. And the music lineup is always the best! Ranging from [...]
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