#folk music

Sarah Sample Lets The Wisdom of Nature Guide Her With Premiere of "Old Barn Owl"

When Wyoming-based folk singer-songwriter Sarah Sample wrote her song "Old Barn Owl" about a year ago, her goal was to bring peace both to herself and to her listeners. Little did she know how much the world would need that sense of calm when the song was released. "It's funny how songs do that...

Annie White

SHEL and Jars of Clay Collaborate for "A Family Christmas" EP

The two acts were eating at the same restaurant in Nashville when Jars of Clay frontman Dan Haseltine approached...

Cillea Houghton

FESTIVAL REVIEWNewport Folk Fest '15 Day 1

A storm brews over the first day of the Newport Folk Fest

J Moliere

ARTIST PROFILE + INTERVIEWBrittsommar - One North Country to Another

“I write these answers now in a dark cabin on the Swedish country side.” This I can imagine: Sawyer Gebauer, lamp-lit at a maple table pondering the four-year history of his musical project Brittsommar. What is difficult to picture is that he is communicating via computer, and not quill, parchment...

Madison Bloom