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Josephine Sanges talks pottery, parish, and projects with Stephen Mosher

Following up her “Sex In Cars” duet with Foo Fighters frontman, Dave Grohl, The Bird and The Bee vocalist, Inara George has released “Road Angel Project: Volume 2” today, the second in her “Road Angel Project” series which will see all proceeds donated via a partnership with Sweet Relief Musicians Fund. The COVID-19 Relief Fund at Sweet Relief provides financial assistance to all types of career musicians and music industry workers who have lost income due to the global pandemic. Hear it now at Buzzbands.la and on all DSPs worldwide.

See the new video and single from Nashville based gay country music icon Cameron Hawthorn. 

“I wrote 'Bird Girl' when I was feeling somewhat displaced, like I could go anywhere and nobody would notice,” says genre-jumping indie artist Julia Bhatt about her rhythmic new single. 

“Shut Up And Sing,” a new song from Brent Cobb’s highly anticipated new album, Keep ‘Em On They Toes, is debuting today.

Based on the overwhelmingly positive response, BDT Stage will continue the Outdoor Concert Series through September. Patrons are assigned socially-distanced plots on our south lot. They bring their own lawn chairs and blankets, are served a pre-ordered picnic dinner and light dessert, and enjoy a live outdoor concert in the early evening.

On September 1st, Irish-born singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Lenii will release her version of the song a?oeLive Your Life,a?? by Nick Cordero, the Broadway Star who died from Covid-19 on July 5th.  The single bookends a moving story that had an impact on theatre and music lovers worldwide.

The Carnegie is preparing for its first-ever Tiny Concert Series, featuring local singers and Carnegie favorites, and Community Film Series next month.

Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and musician Brent Cobb will share a special livestream concert next Wednesday, August 26th at 7:00pm UK via Topeka.

The Tanglewood 2020 Online Festival is a groundbreaking digital series of audio and video streams featuring newly created content being recorded at Tanglewood's Linde Center in July alongside previously recorded material from Tanglewood being released for the first time.

Multi-GRAMMY nominated and multi-platinum singer/songwriter/producer, Charlie Puth, has teamed up with multi-platinum singer/songwriter/producer, blackbear, for a new song, “Hard On Yourself,” which seamlessly fuses funk, pop, and R&B sensibilities.

Hosted by perennial Tanglewood favorite James Taylor, The Best of Tanglewood on Parade is a video stream of highlights from past Tanglewood on Parade concertsa?"features the Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, and Tanglewood Music Center orchestras, as well as the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and Boston Symphony Children's Choir, in selections led by conductors Andris Nelsons, Keith Lockhart, John Williams, James Burton, and Seiji Ozawa.

Following the success of its popular virtual series From Our HeARTS to Your Homes, Arts Garage has announced a brand new, professionally produced music series for homebound entertainment fans missing that unique live concert experience.

Berkshire Theatre Group has announced another event for the community, Bobbie's Summer Series, where on select weekends in August, Berkshire County's talented musicians and dancers will provide diverse entertainment for adults and children alike.

This year’s Newport Folk Festival - one of the oldest and longest running music festivals in the world, will not happen in person but as a way to celebrate, the festival recently announced a weekend full of events.

One can tell when someone is playing music mechanically and simply reading notes on a page or if what you are hearing is something greater than that; as if something divine is coming through the performer's soul. With guitarist Sean Harkness, it most certainly is the later. Although quite an accomplished professional composer, arranger and guitarist, Sean's playing has an additional element; the a?oeIta?? factor that is so hard to describe, but you know it when you see or hear it.

This year's Newport Folk Festival - one of the oldest and longest running music festivals in the world, will not happen in person. Since fans can't be together at the Fort, Newport Folk is bringing the music to you with radio broadcasts from over 60 years of archived sets, webcast concerts, and a very special film to close the weekend.

West End stars Marisha Wallace, Wendy Mae Brown, Cavin Cornwall, Tyrone Huntley and Hugh Maynard have reunited with The British Theatre Academy Ensemble from their critically acclaimed production of a?oeThe Color Purple in Concerta?? to record the title number as a fundraiser.

Riding a new wave of critical acclaim from A Different War, her incredibly timely and most politically charged album to date, widely heralded Biracial blues-rocker DANIELIA COTTON has risen again into the light, fiercely and defiantly, to join a star-studded lineup for “Rock for Relief,” the star-studded benefit concert supporting Feeding America's COVID-19 Response Fund on July 3 at 8pm ET and again at 11pm ET broadcasted at www.rockforrelief.net.

On Sunday night's episode of Last Week Tonight, host John Oliver discusses how US prisons and jails have seen an alarming spike in COVID-19 infections and why the virus has spread so rapidly behind bars and what we can do to stop it.