The Savannah Music Festival‘s new website went live just a few moments ago, and of course that also means the 2016 lineup has now been made public. (Keep in mind that some rock and pop acts are typically added closer…
Every year regular attendees rave about the Savannah Music Festival‘s Stringband Spectacular — it’s a culmination of the festival’s Acoustic Music Seminar — but the show still hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves. The problems might be that the performers…
I already reviewed the Savannah Music Festival‘s Stringband Spectacular, the finale show from the Acoustic Music Seminar, so I’m not going into too much background here. The following video was posted today by Josh Turner, the guitarist you see here.…
A few years ago, my friends Jackie and Ken Sirlin raved about the Savannah Music Festival‘s annual Stringband Spectacular, the finale show for the Acoustic Music Seminar, a key program in the festival’s ongoing educational efforts. So I checked the…
During the beautiful Monday night set by The Barr Brothers at the Savannah Music Festival, Brad Barr quietly observed that the band wasn’t entirely accustomed to such polite, reverential audiences. He mentioned typically having folks talking loudly back by a…
Who doesn’t like Dawes? As Jim Reed said in his excellent preview of the quartet’s Savannah Music Festival performance in Do Savannah, Dawes has become known for “meticulously crafted, emotion-drenched, country-tinged, everyman-inspired ‘classic rock’ songwriting epitomized by the likes of…
In conjunction tonight with a show by Jarekus Singleton at Southbound Brewing here in Savannah, the Savannah Music Festival announced additions to the 2015 lineup: Dawes will perform on Sunday, March 22 at 7 p.m. at Trustees Theater. Great news!…
My buddy Chris recently visited Savannah for several days, and after doing as much of the tourist thing as we could tolerate, and after somehow finding ourselves at two performances of a Christmas burlesque show in which a young lady…
The Savannah market is considerably smaller than other cities in the region that for years seemed more attractive to booking agents — places like Atlanta, Jacksonville, Columbia, S.C. Athens, Ga., is smaller than Savannah, but obviously has a great indie…
The Savannah Music Festival has just released the bulk of the 2015 schedule. The SMF delivers world-class performers of a variety of traditional styles in diverse venues throughout the Historic District. It’s pretty amazing that such a relatively small city…