A blank canvas is full of possibility—much like the partnership of Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy, whose new album, Canvas, comes out March 17on Linus Entertainment. They are two of the world’s top Celtic fiddlers: she a renowned, award-winning solo artist from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia; he from the legendary Leahy family of Ontario, an intergenerational musical act that toured the world.

Indie songwriter Jeremy Facknitz has been entertaining audiences with his lovingly crafted music and high-energy performances for over a quarter century. Since the 2002 break-up of his Detroit-based band “The Ottomans” (they earned a 2001 Detroit Music Award for Best New Alternative Band, beating out “The White Stripes”), Jeremy has performed primarily as a solo act, marrying folk-rock and jazz stylings to showcase his intimate stories of life, love, and self-discovery.  

Hailed as “a young musician and composer with a mature touch and rare combination of talent, creativity, humility and honesty” by NPR, pianist Isaiah J. Thompson is an emerging generational talent. This March 17th, his first live album—The Power of the Spirit—will be released digitally and as a CD on Jazz at Lincoln Center’s in-house record label, Blue Engine.

One act came from Houston, Texas, the other from Sydney, Australia, but they both proved to be outstanding at this year’s International Blues Challenge finals, which took place January 28th at Memphis’ historic Orpheum Theatre.

Superstars of Malian music with an illustrious career spanning more than 40 years, Amadou & Mariam headline venerable U.S. venues such as Miner Auditorium @ SF JAZZ, Le Poisson Rouge (NYC), 9:30 Club (Wash. DC), and others from March 14 - 25, 2023.

Celebrating one of the most pivotal entries in the history of great British rock and prog albums, Wishbone Ash’s legendary LP “Argus” gets a 50th Anniversary multi-format Box Set release on 14 April 2023 through Madfish.

True North Records today announced the signing of Meredith Moon and the forthcoming release of her new album, Constellations, a blisteringly honest but astonishing body of work that easily puts her neatly in the footsteps of her father, Gordon Lightfoot. Constellations is set to be released March 31st, 2023.

A Philly Special Christmas, the holiday album collaboration between Philadelphia Eagles Jason Kelce, Lane Johnson, and Jordan Mailata, produced by Charlie Hall and executive produced by Connor Barwin, will donate $250,000 to fulfill all the classroom wish lists at charter and public schools, grades PreK - 12th, in the city of Philadelphia via DonorsChoose.

Today, rising Washington, DC-based indie rock quartet The Crystal Casino Band, who have amassed over 10 million streams on Spotify, has released their independent new studio album, Maryland House. PRESS HERE to listen. The 13-song collection, the band’s sixth overall full-length album, features their previously released singles “City That Sleeps,” “Twenty-something Socialist,” “Jamie,” “Boys & Girls,” “Until The Sun Comes Up” and “Antlers.”