Hailing from Nashville, musicians Kate Lee Gurnow and Forrest O'Connor make up the contemporary folk band, Wisewater. With Gurnow on the fiddle and O'Connor playing the mandolin or guitar, the band appeared several times this year at the Grand Ole Opry and more recently played in Tuscaloosa at the Green Bar.
Last week on Pearl Street in downtown Boulder, Colorado, I stumbled onto something beautiful. Four scruffy guys stood playing folk music on the sidewalk, crowded around a beat-up old suitcase with a hand-written...
At open mics all around Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, Alan Lane becomes Doobie “Doghouse” Wilson, playing blues and folk music at clubs in the area.Lane, a chemical engineering professor, started playing...
Upon hearing the breathy, crawling voice of Monica Martin of Wisconsin band PHOX, splattered over the whimsical likes of whistles, banjo, clarinet, horn, keys, electric guitar, mandolin and clapping, one...
