The multi-talented Cam has called out iHeart Radio for alleged gender bias, a month after the group ‘Women of Country’ flagged up the issue. Posted on Twitter, the advertisement from @iHeartRadio on the Awards reads ‘Country Artist of the Year’, accompanied by the names and images of Thomas Rhett, Blake Shelton, Sam Hunt, Luke Bryan […]
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No less than 40 acts will be performing at Las Vegas’ sixth annual ACM Party for a Cause music festival. The four-day event, which takes place starting from April 12, is scheduled to take place at a variety of venues along the Vegas strip with Old Dominion, Jon Pardi, Thomas Rhett, Chase Rice and Kelsea
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The Blues Foundation, the guardians of the heritage of American Blues music, has honoured a British couple with its prestigious Keeping the Blues Alive award. The award is for “individuals and organisations that have made significant contributions to the Blues world.” Recipients Gary and Gillian Atkinson own the independent roots music label Document Records,
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“The Canadian Gary Clark Jr… this is how modern blues should sound.” (Concert Monkey) Celebrated Toronto-based blues-rock guitarist, singer and songwriter Chris Antonik’s upcoming ‘Monarch’ UK tour follows hot on the heels of his latest album ‘Monarch’. Monarch, which was nominated in Canada’s prestigious 2018 Maple Blues Awards (Recording/Producer of the Year; Songwriter of the
Folk Alliance International (FAI) kicked off its 30th Annual Conference with the International Folk Music Awards Show held for the first time at Kansas City’s historic Folly Theater. The awards show, which included a live-streamed broadcast and was presented in partnership with Folk Music Canada, opened with a ceremonial land acknowledgement by Ed Smith, a
Vince Gill has defended the Recording Academy after it was criticised for underrepresenting female artists at this year’s Grammy Awards. “I look at it kind of trying to see the whole field, you know. And I think the Grammys will go on and the country artists will feel slighted. Or maybe the classical people will
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Texan singer-songwriter Charley Crockett is set to release Lonesome As A Shadow, his new album on Thirty Tigers on April 20th. The album, a follow-up to 2017’s collection of favourite honky-tonk songs, Charley Crockett presents Lil G.L.’s Honky Tonk Jubilee, features twelve timeless originals that run the gamut from old-time Cajun, southern blues, honky-tonk, through
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Jacob Bryant’s powerful companion video to his current single, “Pour Whiskey On My Grave,” has garnered over THREE MILLION views, and generated more than 90,000 shares from his Facebook page. Released to his fans on February 2 exclusively on the social media platform, the clip can now also be viewed on YouTube, where clicks continue to
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The Heritage is a traditional yoke-style capo with a big difference – aside from its stunning appearance, the Heritage boasts G7th’s groundbreaking Adaptive Radius Technology. This allows the capo’s bar rubber to adapt to the radius over the fingerboard on any guitar perfectly, every time, giving maximum tuning stability with the minimum tension required.
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GRAMMY award-winning superstar and Country Music Hall of Fame member, Kenny Rogers, has announced that his final UK concert will be at LIVEWIRE Festival 2018 in Blackpool on Saturday August 25th, 2018, with special guest, multi-GRAMMY award winning songwriter, Linda Davis. For his only UK date in 2018 the enduring country and pop icon will headline the Saturday night slot of
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