April 2017

After his sold-out winter trek, TIMOTHY B. SCHMIT is gearing up for his spring tour launching Sunday, April 16 in Chicago, IL (see dates below). Before heading out on the road next week, TIMOTHY joins NPR's "HERE & NOW" with host Robin Young for an in-depth interview spanning his music history; listen (here).

The Dignity Festival is a day of fitness and community to support Project Worthmore’s work with Colorado refugees and celebrate World Refugee Day. The event will include a 5k race, Family Fun Run, a live DJ yoga class, rice haul relay, kid’s activities, a community potluck & beer tent, and more.

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Purple Hat Productions and Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park (SOSMP) are teaming up on a new two-day event called Suwannee Summer Clusterpluck. Taking place June 23 & 24, 2017 at Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida, the event will feature some of the best American bluegrass and new grass musicians touring today.

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The legacy of legendary soul jazz guitarist Melvin Sparks will be celebrated on April 28, 2017 with the release of Live At Nectars on One Note Records. The recording, to be issued on digital formats, as well as limited edition vinyl, documents Melvin's final band on December 30, 2010 just a few months before his passing in March 2011.

Ghostland Observatory’s entire approach to music – sonically, aesthetically, conceptually – is essentially a melding of the two distinctly different personalities of its two members, Thomas Ross Turner and Aaron Behrens. Whereas Turner, the producer/drummer/keyboardist of the duo, finds solace in the minimal, bleak cable-patch squawks of Karlheinz Stockhausen and the analog-disco-thump of Giorgio Moroder, Behrens’ interests lie more along the lines of psychedelia, rock and various country and blues artists.

BMG is pleased to announce the new release from Mike + The MechanicsLet Me Fly, scheduled for release in the U.S. on April 7th. It’s been 32 years and eight albums since Mike Rutherford formed Mike + The Mechanics, to complement, rather than replace, Genesis.