The Laurel will host an initial round of Tennessee Songwriters Week competition. 14 songwriters will present one composition and two will be chosen to advance to the showcase round. Jay Clark, Steph Gunoe, and Sean McCullough have agreed to judge the round. https://www.tnvacation.com/songwriters-week Event is free, with donations encouraged
Fiddles and Flatpicks is a collaboration of Jonathan Maness, Cody Bayer, Gavin Gregg, Wendy Maness, and Jesse Eads. They range across traditional American and Celtic roots music. The group features an eclectic mix of instrumental tunes – Irish & Scottish, old-time, bluegrass and swing/jazz variety. They also expand the palate of musical flavors with songs […]
Dori Freeman has sharpened her vision of Appalachian Americana over five studio albums. From the country traditionalism of her self-titled debut to the amplified folk of Ten Thousand Roses, it's a sound that nods to her mountain-town roots even as it reaches beyond them. "I grew up in a family that played a lot of […]
On Friday, February 14 we will hold a songwriters in the round event at the Next Level Brewing taproom at 700 N Broadway. Appropriate to the holiday, the theme will be songs of heartbreak. Maddie and Jordan McCullough, Duck Ryan, Maggie Tharp, and Jessica Watson have agreed to participating in the exchange of songs and […]
Building on a 70-year history as one of the most influential bluegrass bands in the region, the New Dismembered Tennesseans today bring a new lineup, new repertoire, and new energy to the band founded by Tennessee master fiddler and philanthropist Fletcher Bright and his high school friends back in 1945. Make that “mostly” new lineup, […]
Honoring the songs and styles that have shaped our country from Traditional Folk to Ragtime, Old-Time and Early Country, The New Quintet features storyteller and musicologist Nicholas Edward Williams (Guitar, Vocals), Emma Dubose (Fiddle, Vocals), Jade Watts (Upright Bass, Vocals), Gordon Inman (Clarinet) and Cody Ray (Guitar, Lap Steel). The ensemble's big harmonies, intricate melodies […]
Old time fiddle and mandolin players Ken Waldman and Adam Tanner will offer a Laurel Folk School workshop "GOING FURTHER WITH FIDDLE (OR MANDOLIN)." This will be an inclusive workshop, so no matter your experience and ability, you'll leave with something new, whether a new tune, or resources on how to better learn, or some […]
Ken Waldman combines old-time string-band music, original poetry, and Alaska-set storytelling for a performance uniquely his. Twelve CDs have received wide radio airplay. Twenty books include sixteen full-length poetry collections. Since 1995 he has appeared from the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage to the Dodge Poetry Festival to the Woodford Folk Festival in Queensland, Australia. Reviewers […]
Lineup (subject to change): Friday (6-10) Epworth Old Harp Singers (shape note singing, local) Lincoln Park String Band (old time, local) Gladson Family Band (old time and bluegrass, East Tennessee) Kindred Valley (folk, West Virginia) Newfound Gap (bluegrass, North Carolina) UT Appalachian Strings (bluegrass, Local) Count This Penny (folk, Local) Saturday (6-10) Tennessee Stifflegs (honky […]
Allumé is a collaborative project between Nashville’s Miss Tess, Thomas Bryan Eaton (Miss Tess, Bertha), and Lafayette, Louisiana-based K.C. Jones (Feufollet, The Daiquiri Queens), and Trey Broudreaux (The Revelers). All four are accomplished multi-instrumentalists, accompanying each other on guitars, pedal steel, fiddle, harmony vocals, bass, and stripped down drums, to make one big cajun-country-cozy supergroup. […]