Reggie Harris is a songwriter, storyteller, educator, and folk icon. No, literally. This year, Harris was awarded The Spirit of Folk Award from Folk Alliance International -- as well as W.E.B. Du Bois Legacy Award by the Du Bois Legacy Festival in Great Barrington, Mass. His career as a folksinger has spanned four decades, with…
BGS is proud to announce Shout & Shine Episode 5! Guitarist, composer, and songwriter Yasmin Williams is our guest for this livestream iteration of Shout & Shine, which comprises short-form, intimate video performances by underrepresented and marginalized artists in Americana, folk, and bluegrass. Please support Yasmin Williams directly, via her PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/YasminWilliamsMusic and visit Williams' Bandcamp…
Guitarists spend lifetimes -- often gleefully, sometimes manically, or at times frustratingly -- finessing techniques, especially with their picking hand. Entire careers can be made or broken by the idiosyncrasies of one pickerâs striking and sounding strings. Fingerstyle guitarist and composer Yasmin Williams has mastered myriad forms of right-hand styles, each complicated enough for multiple…
BGS is proud to announce Shout & Shine Episode 4! Austin, Texas songwriter and guitar-slinger Jackie Venson is our guest for this livestream iteration of Shout & Shine, which comprises short-form, intimate video performances by underrepresented and marginalized artists in Americana, folk, and bluegrass. Please support Jackie Venson directly, via her merch store: http://bit.ly/JackieVensonMerch and visit…
Jackie Venson, Austin, Texasâs resident singer, songwriter, guitar shredder, and joy dispenser, took a couple of months to restart the locomotive momentum of her career after it was halted by the coronavirus pandemic in March of 2020. A summer of stepping up her touring and festival appearances trashed, she had to purposefully and intentionally consider…
