When Will Carpenter and I wrote the song Get Loud, we wanted to craft a protest anthem after Roe V Wade was overturned...we were not planning on winning awards, or making money off of it. We simply wanted to make art that inspired movement and energy to create change. When we found out that we won the best song in the Rock Alternative Genre we were absolutely thrilled. We certainly did not expect to win the overall grand prize...
Read MoreDecember 1, 2023
SACRAMENTO, CA – Today, the California Arts Council (CAC) announced 856 grant awards totaling more than $32.75 million in overall projected investments for operational and project support to nonprofit organizations and units of government throughout the state of California.
Read MoreJuly 25, 2023 | Andrew Gilbert
Located in a low-slung beige and rust-brown building several yards from Mission Street’s overcrossing of Interstate 280, the Mission YMCA isn’t an obvious place to go looking for Cajun music. But on a recent weekday, some three dozen seniors gathered for lunch while the Creole Belles delivered a set of waltzes, blues, zydeco, and classic Cajun numbers like “Blues à Bébé” by the Carrière Brothers. As a few Chinese women got up to dance, guitarist Karen Leigh broke into a wide grin.
Read MoreOctober 21, 2021 | Melinda Newman
A new survey shows the devastation the pandemic has wrought on roots musicians, who were struggling even before it hit. Long before the pandemic devastated musicians in virtually every genre, roots artists were already living with chronic income instability.However, the COVID-19 shutdown further decimated…
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