Roots Music · Explainer
What Is Americana Music? Roots, Grammys and Key Albums
A roots-music umbrella that began as a loose industry tag now has its own trade association, its own awards and its own Grammy categories.
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Roots Music · Explainer
Delta Blues: History, Sound, Key Players and Where to Hear It
Solo singers with a slide guitar in the Mississippi Delta recorded a handful of 78s that went on to reshape Chicago blues and rock and roll.
Roots Music · How-to
Cigar Box Guitar: History, Parts and How to Build One
A box, a stick and three strings: the homemade instrument that grew from a make-do folk tool into a worldwide makers' movement.
Roots Music · Explainer
Sacred Harp Singing: Shape Notes and the Hollow Square
Four shapes, four parts and a square of chairs: the old Southern way of singing that anyone can walk into and join.
From the archive
Related pages of the old festival site.
Festival archive
A Festival Music Schedule
A day of performers and set times from the festival stage, as the old site published it.
Festival archive
Music at the Festival
The festival's music page. The line-ups it published are kept on the schedule page linked below.