Archive From October, 2013
Diggin’: Red Rover, “The Winding Stream”
inNewson October 10, 2013
Listen: The Winding Stream “Oh, give to me a winding stream, it must not be too wide, where waving leaves from Maple trees do meet from either side, the water must be deep enough to float a small canoe, with no one else but you. Do not disturb my waking dream…” It is a sweet […]
Diggin’: Beverly “Guitar” Watkins, “Back in Business”
inNewson October 3, 2013
Listen: Back in Business Grandma’s got groove, and she ain’t about to try and hide it. Ever since I started at Music Maker a year ago, images of Beverly “Guitar” Watkins on stage, on her knees, with her guitar slung behind her head and her face screwed up in concentration have been THE iconic images […]
Rhiannon Giddens at “Another Day, Another Time”
inUncategorizedon October 1, 2013
Last month T-Bone Burnett called up Rhiannon Giddens and asked her to be part of a special concert at The Town Hall in NYC to be filmed by Joel and Ethan Coen that will be aired on Showtime in December. This concert special is in support of their incredible film “Inside Llewyn Davis.” I had […]
Rhiannon Receives Star-Studded Standing Ovation at ‘Another Day, Another Time’
inNewson October 1, 2013
Rhiannon Giddens, an MMRF Next Generation Artist, performed Sunday night at the “Another Day, Another Time” concert at Town Hall in NYC, among other artists such as Joan Baez, Mumford and Sons, the Avett Brothers, Gillian Welch and others. The concert was a spinoff of “Inside Llewyn Davis,” a film by Joel and Ethan Coen, […]