On Thursday night, Savannah Music Festival proudly announced a stunner of a lineup for their 2017 event. Pouring over their programs, regular attendees discovered old favorites and new gems in […]
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Savannah Music Festival Season Kickoff Concert @Charles H. Morris Center
IT seems wild that we’re already thinking about March 2017, but here we are: it’s time to hear the initial 2017 Savannah Music Festival and celebrate all the great talent […]
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College Student Guide: Music in the Garden of Good and Evil
As a responsible musical citizen–particularly if you’re under 21 years old–it’s important to have a clear picture of how things work in our venues and bars
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Best Cultural Event
March Music Madness spills over into April courtesy of longtime winner Savannah Music Festival. Each year, the great team behind the three-week celebration of song creates a diverse and fascinating […]
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Best Festival (that’s not St. Patrick’s Day)
March Music Madness spills over into April courtesy of longtime winner Savannah Music Festival. Each year, the great team behind the three-week celebration of song creates a diverse and fascinating […]
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Savannah Music Festival: Darrell Scott upsets the comfort zone
The GRAMMY nominee has worked alongside Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Tim O’Brien and many others
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Savannah Music Festival Review: Drive-By Truckers
Despite – or because of – their Deep South roots, Drive-By Truckers have always espoused a clearly progressive take on social issues, the most obvious example last night being the large “Black Lives Matter” poster on the side of Jay Gonzalez’s keyboards. That said, DBT are also the most dynamic heirs to the classic Southern rock tradition still actively touring today.
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This Machine Thrills: Dave Rawlings and Gillian Welch bring Dave Rawlings Machine to Savannah Music Festival
Their second LP “Nashville Obsolete,” a toughed-up version of the roots music many associate Rawlings and Welch with, is a must-have for any Americana fan
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Drive-By Truckers return to town to play the Savannah Music Festival
Heirs to the great Southern rock tradition, they’ve modernized the genre for a new age
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Dwight Yoakam: Alt-country godfather plays Savannah Music Festival
But what might be the biggest link between the two albums is an attitude Yoakam brought to the projects—a spirit, as he says, of “reckless abandon, mischief making and fun” that reminded him of why he wanted to make albums in the first place.
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Savannah Music Festival Review: Late Night Jam @Morris Center
This year Festival favorite Wycliffe Gordon was joined by the masterful and wildly inventive Adrian Cunningham, who absolutely destroyed on the clarinet and saxophone. But the audience was in for an even more special treat as the brilliant trumpet player Terell Stafford sat in.
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Savannah Music Festival Review: Kasse Mady Diabate/Robert Sadin’s ‘Night Songs’
Once again, the Music Festival scores a huge hit with a unique, unlikely double bill that turns out to sound like the most natural thing in the world.