Sam Morrow has crafted a genre-blurring sound that sits at the crossroads of American roots music, blending roadhouse rock, bluesy R&B, and funky country with a heavy dose of grit and groove. His music is as much about the road as it is about the stories it inspires - songs shaped by years of touring...
The Henhouse Prowlers are brand ambassadors, and the brand is the universality of music. The bluegrass band began life nearly two decades ago in Chicago, and its mission has always been to balance entertainment and education. Members Ben Wright on vocals and banjo, Jon Goldfine on vocals and guitar, Chris Dollar on vocals and guitar,...
It’s a long way from the mean streets of the Brazilian favelas to the tree-lined campus of an Iowa university, yet that’s the extraordinary journey musical twins Walter and Wagner Caldas made. The thirty-something-year-olds got their first instruments, violins, from their father, who had a small woodshop and made instruments for a local orchestra designed...
When your teacher and mentor is iconic blues guitarist Albert Collins, you listen. That’s what guitar virtuoso and soul-deep singer Coco Montoya did when Collins told him to “Just play what you feel, be real about it and enjoy yourself.” In a career spanning more than five decades, Montoya has followed that advice. Self-taught and...
Experience the magic of Joanne Shaw Taylor and her incredible band as they deliver a powerhouse performance featuring tracks from her latest album, Heavy Soul, and upcoming release, Black & Gold. Renowned for her exceptional guitar work and soulful songwriting, Joanne’s vocals soar as she blends blues, rock, soul, and pop. The show also features...
The first time Acoustic Alchemy came to the United States, the British group arrived courtesy of Richard Branson. It was the mid 1980s, and they answered an ad in a London paper for in-flight entertainment on Virgin Atlantic. They went to an audition and won first prize, a return flight to London. “We got the...
