country music

Making their Woodyfest debut, Gypsy Twang played the Hen House stage Friday after­noon. Husband and wife Steve Huhn (bass) and Sarah Barker-Huhn (gui­tar, vocals)

Marking their third appear­ance at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, the Turnpike Troubadours closed open­ing night 2018 on the Pastures of Plenty stage. […]

The Red Dirt Rangers may not have birthed Red Dirt, but they helped mid­wife the musi­cal genre into the world. […]

From the moment she began to sing “Trance” from the Brick Café stage, Mary Battiata had this writer’s short hairs stand­ing at atten­tion. The song, from her sec­ond full-length […]

Rick Reiley has never missed attend­ing the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. At least, he doesn’t think so. Reiley kicked off the after­noon pro­ceed­ings at Lou’s Rocky Road Tavern […]

Kicking off the 21st annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, Bill Lewis brought his solo trou­ba­dor act to the base­ment of the Brick Street Café on 12 July at 11:00 A.M., two days before Woody’s birthday. […]

I first met singer-song­writer Alex Culbreth (Parlor Soldiers, Alex Culbreth and the Dead Country Stars) in July, when he was fea­tured in a Woody Guthrie […]

Princess of Twang Nancy Apple and coun­try trou­ba­dour Rob McNurlin are are almost as famil­iar to Woody Guthrie Folk Festival reg­u­lars as the Oklahoma Geniuses (the fes­ti­val house band); wher­ever you look, they seem to be there. […]

It just keeps get­ting bet­ter for Dan Weber. In 2010, he was nom­i­nated for the pres­ti­gious Dave Carter Songwriting Contest. 2 years later, he was a final­ist in the Kerrville Folk Festival “New Folk” com­pe­ti­tion. This year, he won 3rd Prize […]

Although singer-song­writer Audrey Auld iTunes describes her style as music with the dirt left on, that’s dirt from a dis­tinctly dif­fer­ent hemi­sphere — the south­ern hemi­sphere. Born in Australia and raised in the Tasmanian bush […]