Friday, July 20, 2018 In a light drizzle, Chicago’s own The Curls took to the stage at 1 p.m. Blending everything from the B-52s to Frank Zappa, this five-piece band didn’t even notice the weather as they played with abandon. Throwing out…
When Bluesman Mike & the Blues Review rocked Monterey Court last month, photographer Amber Lee Irwin was there to catch the magic. Amber has been generous enough to share these photos with For Folk’s Sake’s audience, giving us an electrifying…
Photographer Amber Lee Irwin has been capturing great shots of live shows at Tucson gem Monterey Court, and we at For Folk’s Sake are privileged to publish galleries from this rising name in Arizona photojournalism. The first of which is…
“Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me around / I’m gonna keep on walking, talking, singing, hoping, praying, saying, voting, voting, voting / marching to the freedom land”, sang Rhiannon Giddens in the closing minutes of the 54th Cambridge Folk Festival,…
Approaching its 54th event, the Cambridge Folk Festival remains firmly amongst Europe’s foremost offerings for celebrating, introducing and shaping folk music. We spoke to operations manager Neil Jones and asked what the secret to its longevity is: “we’re so aware…
With even a cursory pulse on the indie music scene, it would have been hard to not come across the name Phoebe Bridgers—a Los Angeles-native indie folk singer-songwriter—within the past few years. Bridgers was featured on an Apple iPhone commercial…
When the Milk Carton Kids first emerged from Eagle Rock in 2011, it was from out of the ashes of two failed solo ‘careers’. Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale spent most of a decade attempting to find their footing amongst…
The beard is gone. The hair, hidden below a trucker’s cap bearing the name of his new record, is an unfamiliar bleach blond. And the acoustic guitar is still in the back of the tour bus. At first glance, you…
Dr. Dog is on a mission. Twice during the course of the night they tell their fans to “take care of each other.” That notion of caring is at the heart of who they are, as well as their music.…
Josh Rouse proved to be the perfect antidote to a cold, wet Wednesday April evening. His delivery and vocal style is full of soul and warmth and he likes to make gentle jokes in-between songs, like when telling the audience…