Bela Fleck

The 2019 edition of Knoxville, TN's Big Ears Festival happens March 21-24 and also features Spiritualized, This Is Not This Heat, Béla Fleck, Mercury Rev, serpentwithfeet, Harold Budd, Moor Mother, Sons of Kemet, and lots more.

Plus: Eyes of Love, Xasthur, Minus the Bear, Denzel Curry, and more tour news.

Additions include Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet) + Mats Gustafsson (The Thing), Paal Nilssen-Love (The Thing) + Arto Lindsay, Ikue Mori, Marc Ribot, Yuka C. Honda (Cibo Matto), and more.

Chris Thile will bring A Prairie Home Companion back to Town Hall in December...

The awesome lineup also includes Jenny Hval, Juana Molina, Julie Byrne, Kelly Lee Owens, Laurel Halo, Lightning Bolt, Rostam, Sam Amidon, Steve Gunn, and still much more.

This year's free BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival shows in Prospect Park also include Youssou N'Dour, Polica, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Weyes Blood, Moses Sumney, Esperanza Spalding, Lisa Loeb, The Soul Rebels with Talib Kweli, and more.

This is a slower release week, and there's one highly-anticipated release that's five and a half hours long. In lieu of that, today "Five Notable Releases" becomes "Five Notable Hours."

ANOHNI, Kurt Vile, Fucked Up, The Walkmen, The War on Drugs, Phosphorescent, Sharon Van Etten, Jenny Lewis, The National, Courtney Barnett, Real Estate, Lucinda Williams, The Flaming Lips and more contribute to this long-in-the-works project.

Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn's self-titled debut just won the grammy for Best Folk Album at the 2016 Grammy Awards. The pair have just followed it up with an EP titled Banjo Banjo, which also serves as a good descriptor for the record...

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 Paxto…