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Blogs
L.A. Singer-Songwriter, Henry Zhao, Releases an EP of New Music
With the new EP release, “Instant Multiversal Emergency Eradication,” by prolific singer-songwriter, Henry Zhao, the obvious echoes of Bob Dylan, Buddy Holly & Elvis Costello will be noted, but a deeper drink of this artist’s work and a glance at his recent struggles with a neurological disorder that effects his mental health challenges reveal a universal artist walking on the razor’s edge of his own destiny.
By Terry Paul Roland
Art as Service – Donna Lynn Caskey
Looking for the Crossroads
NUMBER 38 - What is the function of creativity?
August 2025
By deb Ewing
Tom Lake – a Summer Stock Theatre Adventure by Ann Patchett
Now For Something Completely Different
Voice Notes: A Folk Diva's Guide
Number 74, August 1, 2025
By Susie Glaze
Articles
Doo-wop – The Quintessential Folk Music
By Ron Cooke
Galician Fiddling: A Brief History
By Enion Pelta-Tiller
Alfonso Franco Galician Fiddling, Yesterday and Today
[Reprinted with permission by Mary Larsen from the Fall 2015 issue of Fiddler Magazine. For more information, visit www.fiddle.com.]
By Kevin Carr
Reviews
Interviews
Donna Lynn Caskey – Daughter of the Tidewater
The Banjo Gal on Creativity, Service, Through-lines and Finding Your Own
By deb Ewing
Deborah Holland’s Made It This Far
...but let me tell you where she's been.
By debora Ewing
Joel Rafael – Bringing Woody to the World and Back
in which we discuss Italian art, Spain, Okemah OK, co-writing with Woody Guthrie, defending the nameless, and how doing things leads to other things
by debora Ewing
Milestones
Columns
Photography from the 51st Annual Santa Barbara Old-Time Fiddlers’ Festival
Photos by David Bragger
By David Bragger
Cowboy Music of the Southern Hemisphere: Música Gaúcha
By Joana Branchine Boschetti and Roland Sturm
The 51st Santa Barbara Old-Time Fiddlers’ Festival
Coming Saturday October 7th
By David Bragger
