Acoustic News

Legends on the Appalachian State University campus in Boone will host two high energy music shows this week that should attract music lovers of all ages.

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The Florida native (and current Oakland resident) got into music at a young age, and by the time he was 19, Marshall was invited to join the original David Grisman Quintet.

Various artists, including Grammy winners Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, give their takes on songs popularized by legendary children's music singer Ella Jenkins, who received a lifetime achievement award from the ...

As a young working musician in London, England, in the 1970s, Laurence Juber got an extraordinary, life-changing break when Paul McCartney hand-picked him to become Wings' lead guitarist.

It often surprises audiences that an instrument with six strings can shape sounds in the form of flamenco, rock, pop or soul.

Concert-goers filled the Kent Concert Hall Monday night for the long-anticipated Kalai concert.

That two conjoined 18th-century barns could prove so hospitable to so much fine music won't surprise anyone who's ever visited them at Wolf Trap.

Popular, world famous guitarist, Peppino D'Agostino, will perform Thursday, February 17, at a celebration and fundraiser for the Benicia Waterfront Park, being held at the historic Jefferson Street Mansion.

A small part of Logan was transformed over the weekend into a very large part of the world at the first annual Tip-Toe into Asia Banquet.

Main Street of Menomonie Inc. The Mabel Tainter Theater is thrilled to present Anne Deming, one of the Twin Cities most powerful singer/songwriter voices, on Saturday, Jan.15, at 8 p.m. Her original music ...

Singer-songwriter Ari Hest is making the music world sit up and take notice. He's a native New Yorker (from the Bronx) and, at age 25, he's developing into an artist with an exceptional ability to connect with ...

Music. Praised for their albums and live performances, Wilco will perform Friday at the Wiltern LG.

He zips through so many styles and plays so effortlessly that it seems Adrian Legg long ago completely mastered both the acoustic and electric guitar.

At 42, Daniel Johnston still struggles with mental illness, but if Grammys went to songwriters who valiantly fight to exorcise demons, he'd have a closet full.

With the slow and steady gain in popularity that British singer-songwriter Nick Drake has been garnering in the past few years, it's no surprise that we're seeing more and more musicians from Northern Europe ...

French Kicks refashion the sound of Brooklyn on an innovative new album. An expedition to Liberty comes up short.

When Bill Janovitz hits a chord and steps to the microphone, all of his signatures come booming through.

There will be local heroes, such as singer-songwriters Robert Hazard, Essra Mohawk and Phil Roy.

The festival features performances by Rik Emmett, world class guitarist and two time U.S. National Fingerstyle Guitar champion Don Ross, plus many more in Canada's first acoustic guitar and fingerstyle guitar ...

Rock duo Kings Of Convenience will release its third album, "Riot on an Empty Street," July 27 via Astralwerks.

Who are they? The Throes are eamonn mcnamee (vocals/guitar), ross neely (guitar), jon hilditch (bass) and ben mcauley (drums). What type of music do they play? The band plays guitar ...

Fingerstyle Guitar magazine has called Tim Sparks "one of the guitar world's best-kept secrets." That secret will be out for Anchorage audiences this week, when Sparks kicks off the ...

The Grammy-award winning duo of Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer will present a free outdoor concert on June 4 at BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown, to celebrate the upcoming 2004 ...

Trapt lead singer Chris Brown spent high school dodging cops who wanted to bust his after-school parties and trying to convince his skeptical parents that he could pull off a career in ...

There's no way to include all the great music available for kids, but here are mini-reviews of selected recent CDs worth consideration for families' collections.

Radcliff Mayor Sheila Enyart knows just how bad a bad day can feel. In the closing performance of the Acoustic Guitar Masters Series 4, guitarists Edgar Cruz and Ruben Romero will set ...

The artistry of Eva Yerbabuena proves that a flamenco dancer needn't go far to become the greatest of her time.

When Justin Sullivan's tour van pulled into the Mason Jar, the first thing the New Model Army front man did was smoke a cigarette.

Passion oozed from every pore of the Carlota Santana Dance Company as the five-person troupe brought its fiery "Flamenco Vivo!" to the Carlsen Center stage Friday night.

Over the past decade the self-taught steel-string ace has painstakingly built up the International Guitar Night, an annual tour featuring a revolving cast of acoustic guitar masters that has developed ...

Drag City has set a Feb. 24 release date for the Papa M singles collection "Hole of Burning Alms." As tipped here in September, the 12-track set chronicles group leader David Pajo's various ...

Yeah, you heard right. Carla Bozulich. Folks into obscure indie rock may recall Bozulich as the talented lead singer of the great, punky Geraldine Fibbers, a band out of Los Angeles.