August 18, 2010 - For a bluegrass band like Cherryholmes, the setting - the courtyard of one of the grandest museums in the entire U.S. was atypical. So without a "typical" audience there to lend support, one...
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August 17, 2010 - Ray LaMontagne should have had a lot to celebrate, but you certainly could not tell from his demeanor on this tour with British singer David Gray.
Interestingly enough, the first of two shows before...
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August 15, 2010 - This was the final night of the tour for Phosphorescent, a Brooklyn-based band (person?) featuring Matthew Houck at the helm playing what mostly is alt.-country music even if few willingly accept that mantle these days....
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August 3, 2010 - Levon Helm's Band were the closing act of this year's Newport Folk Festival, but if you couldn't find something that you liked earlier on a beautiful day, you must have tin ears because...
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July 31, 2010 - The weather was picture perfect with the only sizzling heat this day being Hugh Prestwood's annual show for the East End Art's Council's Wine Press Concert Series with friends Chris Barron and Jeff Cohen....
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July 24, 2010 - With 67 performers from around the globe - including the United Kingdom, Australia, Israel and Niger - representing the diversity of turntablism, blues rock, nu-folk, gospel, country, and - in a select...
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July 21, 2010 - Belleville Outfit is doing it the old-fashioned way - but not necessarily the common way these days. They are touring. The Austin-based band rooted in Texas swing music, has been a heavy gigging work...
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June 27, 2010 - Mary Chapin Carpenter had been out of action for a long time. She was slated to tour behind her last album, "The Calling,' three years ago, but then life got in the way in the form of pulmonary...
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June 23, 2010 - Elizabeth Cook was a newcomer to Boston, but the strong-voiced, country traditionalist with a lot of sass and amiability made you wonder just why she hadn't been here any sooner....
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June 19, 2010 - A small crowd did not affect Tift Merritt one bit. In fact, the diminutive sometimes country/rootsy singer from New York via North Carolina was way more than up to the task with a set that changed it up...
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