Roots Music News--4.12.12

New Orleans French Quarter Fest kicks off Thursday BusinessWeek By STACEY PLAISANCE French Quarter Festival kicks off Thursday with a performance by the Grammy-winning Rebirth Brass Band, the first New Orleans brass band to win music's highest honor. Rebirth won this year's best regional roots music award for its ... See all stories on this topic »

Alabama Shakes: Rustic Roots To Main-Stage Success MTV.com Not surprisingly — given the Shakes' Southern roots and the laundry list of adjectives their music inspires — long-suffering rock critics have already embraced both the band and their sound, dubbing them everything from the genre's next great saviors ... See all stories on this topic »

Songwriter finds Southern roots up North Online Athens Rolling out of the city of brotherly love, Hoots is part of a folk-influenced, rearward-focused local scene that's spawned roots-rockers Dr. Dog and, perhaps subconsciously, is one of the legions of young neo-folk and soul groups. See all stories on this topic »

Carolina Chocolate Drops Have Roots in Arizona, Too Phoenix New Times The Carolina Chocolate Drops are scheduled to perform Sunday, April 15, at the McDowell Mountain Music Festival at Compound Grill. Sign up for the Music Newsletter: Keep your thumb on the local music scene with music features, additional online music ... See all stories on this topic »

Jack White, Tony Bennett, The Roots, Fleet Foxes' Robin Pecknold ... Music Indistry News Network ... hip-hop stars The Roots, Czech singer Markéta Irglová, and Eddie Vedder and Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam – released a "love letter" to local public radio stations across the country today in honor of April's Public Radio Music Month celebration. See all stories on this topic »

Pop artists ply their craft in musicals USA TODAY John Mellencamp is trying his hand at musical theater. Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, just opened at Atlanta's Alliance Theatre, is described in a press release as a "Southern Gothic musical set to a roots and blues-tinged score," with a book by ... See all stories on this topic »

Smithsonian exhibit begins Georgia run Moultrie Observer ATLANTA — Sandra Deal, first lady of Georgia, will open the statewide tour of New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Saturday at the Harris Arts Center in Calhoun. Deal is honorary chair of the Georgia tour of ... See all stories on this topic »

ArtsCenter's new director returning to his roots Durham Herald Sun The performance was "not a regular band but an assemblage of remarkable musicians," among them a banjo player named Bela Fleck, who got together with Darol Anger on violin, Mike Marshall on mandolin and Larry Cohen on bass. "They did an entire evening ... See all stories on this topic »

Weekend music picks Wicked Local Roots in the Round with Dave DeLuca and Brian Carroll at Tinkers Son in Norwell. Silvertone Slyde jams at Pete's Grille in Quincy. Lakeville's Amy Correia at Toad in Cambridge. Dalton & the Sheriffs at Toby Keith's in Foxboro. See all stories on this topic »

Music Box: Bandhouse Gigs return with tribute to Rod Steward Annapolis Capital Friday night it's Tin Cup Gypsy playing its fusion of acoustic folk, rock, jazz and bluegrass with earthy lyrics and rich melodies that capture the essence of the roots-rock genre (8 pm show). Instrumentation includes mandolin, violin, concertina (a ... See all stories on this topic »