Posts by Nancy Lasher and Jordan Hamowy

The Record Company played a two night sold out run in NYC last week at Rough Trade and the Bowery Ballroom.  Both nights started off strong with a great performance from the warm up band, Muddy Magnolias – a Nashville soul/rock outfit fronted by two strong-voiced female vocalists Jessy Wilson & Kallie North.  They dominated […]

The 2016 Rhythm and Roots Music and Dance Festival celebrated its 19th year in its current location, and it is hard not to conclude that it was the strongest year ever.  The lineup was fantastic – a great mix of established performers (Lucinda Williams, Dave & Phil Alvin, Taj Mahal, Bruce Hornsby), it also featured […]

Although watching your children grow up is a great feeling, it can also be a touch bittersweet.  That is what it felt like at the 30th Green River Festival – I used to call it “the little festival that could”, but after this year I’ll need to amend that to “the little festival that did”. […]

Tom Petty’s original band, Mudcrutch, is midway through its brief tour of small-venue shows and played the second of a sold-out two-night stand at Webster Hall in New York City on Saturday night in support of their second album, Mudcrutch 2.  Despite the presence of Petty and two of the Heartbreakers, they were there to […]

So the Green River Festival begins a lot like most festivals: people line up at the gates way earlier than expected, tickets are taken, wristbands put on by soon-to-be experienced volunteers.  All of this is done with smiles and an aura that is overflowing with community. Then, like at every festival the single regrettable moment […]

Green River Festival in Western Massachusetts discovered the power of the headliner this year.  With Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue closing out Saturday night and with the added punch of Josh Ritter and the Royal City Band ending the Festival on Sunday, it was sold out completely for the first time in its 28 years.  […]