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Critically-acclaimed bluegrass duo Dailey & Vincent are set to kick off their highly anticipated 10-year celebration in true superstar fashion. They are one of the most decorated acts in the history of the genre, consisting of 6-time “Male Vocalist of the Year” winner Jamie Dailey and 5-time Grammy® winner Darrin Vincent. They will be commemorating the special occasion with a series of events that will start their year off with a bang.

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Santa has decided to give Old Settler’s Music Festival fans an early Christmas present—word that Texas’ own outlaw-country-loving rockers the Old 97’s have been added to the 30th-anniversary festival lineup, along with Austin’s rising blues boys, the Peterson Brothers. They join a sure-to-be-swingin’ roster of roots music talent appearing Thursday-Sunday, April 20-23, 2017, at the Salt Lick BBQ Pavilion and Camp Ben McCulloch in Driftwood, just southwest of Austin.

Guitar virtuoso and rock legend, Steve Hackett (formerly of Genesis), releases his latest album The Night Siren on Friday, March 24th 2017, through InsideOut Music (Sony). As implied in the title, The Night Siren is a wake-up call…the warning of a siren sounding in this era of strife and division.

Founded in 2009 by bandleader Tyler Grant, the Cosmic Americana band Grant Farm will hit the road in January & February to the West Coast supporting their latest release, Kiss The Ground.

Grateful Dead lyricist, and co-founder of the EFF, John Perry Barlow, has had a tumultuous year and a half spent in "medical incarceration," living with extreme pain and limited mobility since April, 2015. Tragically, healthy savings and robust insurance is no match for the cost of extended convalescence.

As another exciting year winds down, Brooklyn’s Turkuaz is thrilled to share their first batch of tour dates for 2017.  The four week run will begin in the Southwest, anchored by McDowell Mountain Music Festival in Phoenix, AZ where they will share the bill with Flume, The Shins, Chromeo, and more.  Following a trek through Colorado’s Rocky Mountain ski areas, the tour will land in Columbus, OH for two nights as part of Woodland's Tavern St.

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Dates have been announced and registration is now open for the 2017 Kruger Brothers Music Academy, an intensive and inspiring educational weekend for acoustic music players of all levels, beginner to advanced.

Now in its 6th year, this very exclusive event offers masterclass instruction in banjo, guitar and bass by the internationally renowned Kruger Brothers. This year, the trio will be joined by The Kontras Quartet, bringing excellence in violin/fiddle, viola and cello to the academy offerings.

These days it’s difficult to find much of anything that truly represents an American regional culture. That’s why a group like The Revelers stands out as much as they do. This Grammy-nominated band hails from what is arguably the most musically fertile area of the country, Southwestern Louisiana.

LIGHTS ALL NIGHT, Texas' largest electronic music festival, today (December 13) announces that their first-ever live broadcast will take place this New Year's Eve weekend, December 30 and 31, live from Dallas Market Hall. LIGHTS ALL NIGHT has partnered with new music festival digital television network UphoricTV, in a multi-year agreement, to produce and broadcast select performances through the festival weekend over t

If Rayna Gellert seems a preternaturally gifted songwriter, it’s because she’s seen farther into the old songs than most. Growing up in a musical family, Gellert turned to Appalachian old-time music at a young age, becoming a prodigious fiddler and leading a new revival of American stringband music through her work with the acclaimed American roots band Uncle Earl.

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