Market East debut new video for “Elena” (playing North Star Bar on Thursday,...
Market East have debuted a new video for the song “Elena,” from their self-titled debut album. You can download the album for free here. Market East play at the North Star Bar on Thursday, May 24th,...
View ArticlePhoto Recap: Ron & Marley Present Levon Helm Tribute at World Cafe Live
Last night, the World Cafe Live stage was full of country rock ‘n rollers all from Philly, playing tribute to legendary southern rocker himself, Levon Helm. The audience was dancing up a storm and...
View ArticleTonight’s Concert Picks: Autre Ne Veut at Voyeur for Making Time, Divers at...
Autre Ne Veut headlines tonight’s Making Time event at Voyeur Nightclub. Based in Brooklyn, Autre Ne Veut is the electronic R&B / pop project of former jingle composer Arthur Ashin. Anxiety,...
View ArticleThe Key’s Week of Folk: John Hartford’s classic 1971Aereo-Plain to get the...
left to right: John Hartford, Norman Blake, Tut Taylor The Key’s Week of Folk is our series of interviews, reviews, artist spotlights, playlistings and general ephemera to get you ready for the 52nd...
View ArticleListen to three tracks from Dawn Hiatt’s new LP Goodnight Boots (playing...
Dawn Hiatt is one of those faces you’ve seen and voices you’ve heard if you frequent the Philly-area roots rock scene. She’s collaborated with The Lowlands as well as Johnny Miles and the Waywards, and...
View ArticleChristopher Davis-Shannon reworks Brad Hinton’s “Mourning Dove” for Cover...
Photo by Jeff Coon Christopher Davis-Shannon is the featured artist in Cover Club, a new weekly series series from local blog Root Down in the Shadow. The concept is spotlighting a Philadelphia...
View ArticleWatch Brad Hinton and Katie Frank cover Tin Bird Choir for latest Cover Club...
For their most recent installment of the Cover Club series, local music blog Root Down in the Shadow welcomed acoustic folk singer, Brad Hinton. Hinton is no stranger when it comes to covering songs...
View ArticleUnder the ground and the skin: a song feature on The Springhill Mining...
Folksingers often act as the voice of the people, creating a memorial, protest, speech, opinion piece, or treatise in verse and music. Peggy Seeger along with Ewan MacColl took up the mantle to tell...
View ArticleFolkadelphia Session: Psalmships (from April 2014)
In our rather short history of Folkadelphia, the artist we’ve probably worked with the most is Psalmships. Psalmships is the ever-evolving musical project of Joshua Britton, Bucks Co. resident and...
View ArticlePhiladelphia is blowing up NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert Contest and it’s amazing
For those of you who don’t know about NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts, you may want to head over to their site and root through their enormous and equally impressive archive. Their 15-minute videos feature...
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