Sunny War found refuge in music as a young woman whose family moved frequently. Now based in Southern California, she channels complicated emotions in her songwriting, which is rooted in blues, punk, and folk. Check out her acoustic performance of “He Is My Cell.”
Directed and edited by Richard Downie
BGS is pleased to partner with our friends at Pickathon to premiere a new live session from The Lucky Barn each month. The latest installment features House and Land, a minimalist duo that draws on the influences of traditional as well as modern, experimental music. You can discover more about the festival and get your tickets early for 2019 at pickathon.com
When you’ve spent a few days at Pickathon Festival in Happy Valley, Oregon, you’re bound to wind up at the Lucky Barn — where fans are treated to a host of intimate performances and conversations with up-and-coming acts and established talent jamming in a low-key environment (like the name implies, it’s literally a barn). Despite the band name, The Dead Tongues certainly have something to say here. Check out their acoustic performance of “Thunder and Crash,” then stick around for a few questions with North Carolina musician Ryan Gustafson.
BGS is pleased to partner with our friends at Pickathon to premiere a new live session from The Lucky Barn each month. You can discover more about the festival and get your tickets early for 2019 at pickathon.com
The Lone Bellow isn’t bringing the rest of the band on their upcoming tour of the U.S. Instead they will be traveling as a trio, singing around one microphone – a stunning approach they usually reserve for the end of their shows. The fall tour coincides with a new EP, Restless, set for an October 19 release. BGS filmed this version of the incredible title track in Nashville.
Catch The Lone Bellow at this year’s Huck Finn Jubilee in Ontario, California October 5-7. The revival of this iconic southern California bluegrass festival will include the Infamous Stringdusters, Yonder Mountain String Band, Balsam Range, and many, many more. Tickets are available here.
Produced and directed by Elizabeth Olmstead
Love Canon, a bluegrass band more than comfortable with mining the classics — familiar and forgotten — from the songs of the 1980s, perform “Islands In the Stream” with guests Lauren Balthrop and Mike Barnett for their Sitch Session at Eugenia Hall in Nashville, TN.
Banjo player and broadcaster Joe Mullins gathers his IBMA Award-winning Radio Ramblers at the storied Butcher Shoppe recording studio in Nashville’s Germantown neighborhood to lament the woes of wandering the Wild West for their Sitch Session performance of “Long Gone Out West Blues.”
Catch Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers at this year’s Huck Finn Jubilee in Ontario, California October 5-7. The revival of this iconic southern California bluegrass festival will include the Infamous Stringdusters, Yonder Mountain String Band, Balsam Range, and many, many more. Tickets are available here.
Shot and directed by Nathan Shuppert; edited by Melissa Kane.
Courtney Marie Andrews quickly engages the listener with an expressive voice, an acoustic guitar, and a disarming talent for songwriting. Her perspective is honest and inviting as she reflects on her own life story, as well as those from family and friends she’s met along the way. Andrews teamed with director/editor Richard Downie at his studio in downtown Los Angeles to film “Took You Up,” a stunning song from the Arizona native’s newest album, May Your Kindness Remain.
Directed and edited by Richard Downie
The Weather Station — aka Tamara Lindeman & Co. — offers us a track from their recent self-titled release. “Thirty” captures the memories of emptiness and change that come with early adulthood, with a sound that’s as moody and atmospheric as the Ontario landscape from which they hail.
Shot in Philadelphia, PA by Wonderscope Productions
We go out on a limb for a Sitch Session with I’m With Her performing “Ain’t That Fine,” filmed inside the Fairmont Park Horticulture Center in Philadelphia. The acoustic supergroup of Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan, and Sara Watkins will branch out all across the US this summer and fall, touring in support of their debut album, See You Around.
Edited and directed by Wonderscope
Equal parts cutting and gauzy, alt-folk upstart Jamie Drake’s lilting vibrato is the centerpiece of her Sitch Session performance of “Allison.”
