We All Want Someone To Shout For

Whitney with Kevin Morby and Hand Habits

The 2019 edition of the Woodsist Festival took place on Saturday, September 28th at Arrowood Farm upstate in Accord, New York, a perfectly ideal situation for a lovely day of music. The surrounding of the farm and brewery was a perfect situation for the fall weather, giving fans one of their last chances to enjoy a day of live music outdoors. The day was set up to showcase some of the closest friends of the Woodsist label, with headlining sets from friends and former acts of theirs such as Whitney, Real Estate, along with Woods themselves, Kevin Morby, Waxahatchee, and many more.
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Dave Matthews Band

Article and Photos by Brian Berson

Blessed with beautiful weather on day two of Sea Hear Now for another amazing day of music on the beach (find our recap of Day 1 here). Kicking off the day was Dave Hause and The Mermaid, a great rock band from Philadelphia. Frontman Dave Hause writes catchy tunes that are instantly memorable and everyone knew we were in for a great day. Ripe, a rockin’ and funky jam band got the crowd dancing in the sand. This group showed their fun side as all of their members danced as much as the audience.
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The StrutsArticle + Photos by Brian Berson

Back in the sand for the second annual Sea.Hear.Now music festival with a crowd of over 37,000 impressively about doubled last year’s attendance. This family-friendly event takes place on a perfectly chosen beach of the seaside town, Asbury Park in New Jersey, a town built on music. Last year’s festival set the bar high, and it’s no surprise that Danny Clinch and company met and exceeded that from the moment the gates opened.

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Jim James and Kermit

Following a Newport Folk Festival finale for the ages in Day 2, it was a lingering question all day about how they could possibly match The Collaboration, a female-led set curated by Brandi Carlile featuring tons of surprise appearances, mainly from the legendary Dolly Parton. But with Newport, you always know you’re going to get something special and Day 3 delivered in ways equally surprising and heartfelt and we wouldn’t have it any other way.

J.S. Ondara

Our day began with a breathtaking performance from J.S. Ondara, who blew everyone in the audience away, including us. It was a high point of the day, followed up by sets from Lake Street Dive, Courtney Marie Andrews and Our Native Daughters. We then had a few minutes to take some portraits behind the scenes with Dawes and then caught a solo performance from Trey Anastasio of Phish on the Fort Stage.
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Dolly Parton and Brandi Carlile

Following Day 1, we returned to The Fort for another action-packed day at the Newport Folk Festival.

The day kicked off with sets from Haley Heynderickx, the collaborative set Songs For Beginners, as well as local New York rockers The Nude Party and Britain’s Jade Bird. From there we caught a lovely performance from Gregory Alan Isakov, before catching Rayland Baxter at the Quad Stage before heading over to the Fort Stage for Maggie Rogers, who brought a bit of pop to the festival.
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The Highwomen

Summer 2019 has absolutely flown by, but if there’s one silver-lining about the seemingly straight shot through the summer months, it’s the arrival of the Newport Folk Festival. This year featured one of the more interesting lineups of the festival yet, which felt a lot different than previous years.

But one thing stayed the same: the festival’s dedication to selecting artists that they are truly passionate about championing and plenty of collaborations and surprises that make Newport Folk Festival one of the best festivals you’ll ever attend.

Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real

Day 1 of the festival went down on Friday, July 26th and we kicked off it off with sets from Black Belt Eagle Scout, Liz Cooper & The Stampede, Parker Millsap, and Cooks In The Kitchen, who gave us our first big surprise guest of the weekend with an appearance from Kristian Matsson, otherwise known as The Tallest Man on Earth. From there we caught performances from Warren Waynes, I’m With Her and then saw some of the bigger headlining performances of the festival from Kacey Musgraves and Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real.

Sheryl Crow & Brandi Carlile

On the Fort Stage Sheryl Crow brought out Brandi Carlile, who we would catch right after when she performed along with The Highwomen, her new supergroup with Maren Morris, Amanda Shires, and Natalie Hemby, who were making their first-ever live performance at the festival and had everyone at the Quad Stage blown away by what they were witnessing. The live band also includes Shires’ husband Jason Isbell and saw them joined by Yola, who was a perfect extra voice for their performance. Seeing this fantastic performance made you wonder why they weren’t the ones headlining, as the performance from Phil Lesh & The Terrapin Family Band on the Fort Stage, simply pailed in comparison.

Find a full gallery of photos from Day 1 posted below and stay tuned for coverage from Day 2 & 3.

Black Belt Eagle Scout:

Yola:

Liz Cooper & The Stampede:

Parker Millsap:

Cooks In The Kitchen:

Warren Haynes:

I’m With Her:

Kacey Musgraves:

Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real:

Sheryl Crow:

The Highwomen:

Phil Lesh & The Terrapin Family Band:

Photos by Anthony Mulcahy

Folk duo The Milk Carton Kids headlined this year’s American Roots Music Festival, the 9th edition of the festival which takes place at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah, New York.

Our photographer Anthony Mulcahy was there to capture photos from not only both of their performances earlier in the day outdoors and later at night indoors, but as well as the opening act Amythyst Kiah and various other folk acts that performed outside earlier in the day.

Find a full gallery of photos from all the performances posted in the gallery below.

Bumper Jacksons:

Youth In A Roman Field:

Damn Tall Buildings:

Amythyst Kiah:

The Milk Carton Kids (Outdoors):

The Milk Carton Kids (Indoors):

Nas

It sadly seems like it wouldn’t be a Governors Ball without a bit of rain. Although we lucked out with great weather during Day 1 and Day 2 of the festival, we weren’t quite as lucky on Day 3, with forcast calling for a storm during the start of the evening. So the festival delayed gates till 6:30 pm and sadly had to cut a good chunk of the artists from early in the day.
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Florence + The Machine

Following the first day of Governors Ball 2019, we headed back to Randall’s Island Park for Day 2, which began with a set from the young rockers of Calpurnia, led by actor Finn Wolfhard of Stranger Things. Following their set, we caught up with New York rockers Sunflower Bean, who had the hometown going strong, not always an easy feat during such an early timeslot of the festival.

Kacey Musgraves

We then caught a firey performance from Denzel Curry, before catching a set from reigning Best Album Grammy winner Kacey Musgraves over at the main stage. It was then off to see King Princess, who we just caught at Irving Plaza earlier in the year (as well as Boston Calling a few weeks ago). We kept the energy going with sets from Vince Staples and Lord Huron and then it was time for the headlining performance from Florence + The Machine on the main stage.
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Gesaffelstein

For concertgoers in New York, the arrival of June means one thing: Governors Ball. The festival returned for its 9th year (and it’s 8th at Randall’s Island). This was my 8th straight year covering the festival and we were excited to see what this year brought us with its lineup of acts across all genres.

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

Our day began with Australian rockers Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, who released one of our favorite albums of 2018. They got the day going in style and handed things off Hippo Campus who put on a fun showing inside the tent stage.
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