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The Summer Camp Music Festival team is excited to officially release the confirmed artists to date for the 20th Anniversary celebration, which will now take place May 28th - 30th, 2021 at Three Sisters Park in Chillicothe, IL. Sticking closely to the original lineup, organizers report that the majority of 2020’s acts have been confirmed for 2021, including headliners, Ween, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, Billy Strings, Three Six Mafia, Rezz, STS9, and Tipper among others. As expected, longtime host bands of the fest, moe. and Umphrey’s McGee are also returning in 2021. The festival is still working through logistics with some artists, so they say to expect even more announcements and surprises in the coming months.

From writing songs to Tom Petty ("Song for Tom Petty") to covering Randy Newman’s “Blue Shadows on the Trail”, The Satin Cowboy has outdone himself once again with his new sorrowful country ballad, “I’m No Good at Being Sad”.  The song’s old country guitar rhythm and plaintive lyrics are a throwback to traditional sing-along country music, while the crisp production and fiddle bring the song into the contemporary Americana realm.

To help raise awareness and support for the Save Our Stages (SOS) Act, NIVA Colorado has dubbed Wednesday, July 29th as the organization’s “Day of Action.”

KEEN, Inc. (KEEN), today announces a partnership with the Jerry Garcia Family, a new limited edition collection combining Jerry Garcia’s artwork with KEEN’s iconic Newport sandal and UNEEK sneaker sandal with a portion of sales going to HeadCount, a non-profit that uses the power of music to register voters and participate in democracy.

Nick Perri & The Underground Thieves, a Philadelphia-based rock band led by artist/songwriter/producer Nick Perri, announced a live-stream album release show at the Ardmore Music Hall today. The full band, full production concert will take place the day the group’s anticipated debut album SUN VIA will be released, Friday August 14th.

Nashville’s The Danberrys are somehow both charmingly old-world and very much of this moment. The married couple’s rich pastoral blues and muscly folk evoke the big-hearted storytelling of pioneering giants like the Carter Family but could only come now, as a mixed offshoot of roots music’s ever-growing family tree.

A true son of the new, progressive South, Warren Givens has spent the last half of his life on the move, chasing a muse—from Mississippi to Nashville to New Orleans to Austin—but it wasn’t until he returned to Asheville, North Carolina, that Givens saw the clearer, bigger, balanced picture.

Billows of tear gas fill the warm, summer night air. The shouts and pleas for justice replaced by hacking coughs, irritated eyes and people forced to their knees, desperately trying to breathe. A metal baton is used to shove a middle-aged woman, peacefully expressing her First Amendment right. A twenty something man, holding a sign that simply states, “We Need Change,” is grabbed without explanation and thrown into an unmarked van. American cities are being terrorized by unidentified federal agents that resemble paramilitary.

Blues icon Joe Bonamassa is back with another single from his studio recordings at the legendary Abbey Road Studio in London. ‘Why Does It Take So Long To Say Goodbye’ arrives on J&R Adventures, along with a special music video showing him in the studio recording the track. The track was co-written with legendary ‘Whitesnake’ guitarist Bernie Marsden.

Episode five of Bob Marley's Legacy documentary series continues with 'Punky Reggae Party,' an insightful look back at Bob's time in and impact on London and the rest of the United Kingdom. Dating back from the mid-'70s to this present day, 'Punky Reggae Party' explores how Bob's music and ethos captured the Zeitgeist, detailing his signing to Chris Blackwell's Island Records, and the welcomed arrival of his sound and the impact he had in the United Kingdom, especially the London-born children of the Windrush generation.

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