Joel Rafael

Clearwater Festival 2019 lineup: Mavis Staples, Ani DiFranco, The Wailers, more

The 2019 Clearwater Festival happens June 15 & 16 in Hudson New York and also celebrates its late founder Pete Seeger’s 100th birthday

Clearwater Festival 2015 initial lineup (Neko Case, Felice Bros, Guster, Bettye LaVette, Blind Boys of Alabama & more)

Croton, NY’s annual two-day folk fest Clearwater Festival returns this year from June 20-21. The initial lineup has been announced, including Neko Case, The Felice Brothers, Guster, Ani DiFranco, Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn, The Blind Boys of Alabama, The Lone Bellow, Los Lobos, Tom Paxton, Bettye LaVette, Joseph Arthur, The Felice Brothers, The Mavericks and more, plus still more …

A bunch of artists wrote an open letter to Pandora who support the Internet Radio Fairness Act

This letter, signed by a ton of artists and pictured above, is set to appear in an ad in Billboard:We are big fans of Pandora. That’s why we helped give the company a discount on rates for the past decade…

Newport Folk Fest 2012 lineup (My Morning Jacket, Iron & Wine, Conor Oberst, Dawes, Deer Tick, much more)

The Newport Festivals Foundation continues to celebrate the festival’s historic past by featuring emerging young artists alongside some of folk music’s most venerable names…