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Yahoo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
National Folk Festival in Jackson adds six new artists
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Officials with the National Folk Festival announced six additional artists appearing at the 82nd National Folk Festival in downtown Jackson from November 7-9, 2025. This year's festival marks the first year of the event's three-year residency in Jackson. Three hundred artists are expected to take part in the festival, with more than 30 different musical groups performing on as many as six outdoor performance venues throughout downtown Jackson. National Folk Festival reveals first artists for 2025 in Jackson The six artists announced on June 5 include: Balla Kouyaté & Famoro Dioubaté Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars Jeffery Broussard & the Creole Cowboys Korean Performing Arts Institute of Chicago Lutchinha Wylie & the Wild West The following artists were previously announced: The Campbell Brothers Dale Ann Bradley E.U. featuring Sugar Bear Eileen Ivers John Primer & the Real Deal Blues Band LOS RICOS featuring Sonia & Ismael Plena Libre Riyaaz Qawwali More performers will be announced as they are confirmed. The festival is free to the public. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Scoop
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scoop
Tom Woodward Releases The Video For His Latest Single 'Termination Day'
has been writing and releasing his unique brand of baroque folk-rock, cosmic country psychedelia, and fuzzed-out lo-fi gems on numerous albums and EPs for the last two decades. With an enviable cache of songs that document his thoughts and experiences, he's already lived a fascinating life. Tom honed his craft in the thriving arts & music scene of Canberra and Melbourne in the mid-2000s before taking his original songs to audiences around Australia, Japan, and the USA. In 2023, Tom put down the guitar and embarked on a two month walk up the east coast of Australia, ending with a hospital stay and a hard-earned respect for the fragility of life. A year and a half later, he got deported as an illegal alien from the USA. Tom's new single ' Termination Day ', which premiered with Sunburnt Country Music and Stuart Coupe's Dirt Music on 2SER, is a raised middle finger to the forces of tech feudalism and economic totalitarianism as they attempt to imprison our souls. " It is an ironically upbeat rock & roll banger," says Tom. " As Jean-Paul Satre said, 'you always have a choice, even if that choice is to get shot in the head.' It was written after listening to 'Tops' by The Rolling Stones when I was bored one evening. I thought, 'I could write something like that..,' picked up my guitar and out came the riff." The lively rhythmic bounce and Tom's melodic, Dylan-esque delivery give the song an infectious and positively euphoric sonic quality. The line "let it slide" is echoed by Katie Walsh's backing vocal and Tom's liquid electric guitar line as the chooglin' groove heads into the sunset like a lost classic from The Band. The video clip finds Tom in his natural environment, live on stage in a room full of music lovers. Tom has a run of VIC, NSW, and ACT shows happening through June (see poster below), celebrating the current single, ahead of the release of another new song in July. Tom's mid-2010s album Beautiful Shadows received critical acclaim in publications such as For Folk's Sake and The Huffington Post and earned him a Canberra Critics Circle award. He has performed at the National Folk Festival, The Multicultural Fringe Festival, and racked up for supports for such luminaries as Abbe May, The Drones, Mikelangelo & the Black Sea Gentlemen, Cash Savage & the Last Drinks, Machine Translations, Steve Poltz, and many more. Tom's eclectic musicality and creative work ethic are proof he's in it for the long haul. Having been sentenced to a wandering life by a sardonic and hilarious God, Tom's been laughing, crying, and singing about it ever since.
Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
National Folk Festival reveals first artists for 2025 in Jackson
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – The National Folk Festival team announced the first eight artists who will perform at the 82nd National Folk Festival in Jackson. The festival will take place November 7-9, 2025. The eight artists announced include: The Campbell Brothers (Rochester, New York) Dale Ann Bradley (Middlesboro, Kentucky) E.U. featuring Sugar Bear (Washington, D.C.) Eileen Ivers (Bronx, New York) – Irish John Primer & the Real Deal Blues Band (Chicago, Illinois) LOS RICOS featuring Sonia & Ismael (New York, New York) Plena Libre (San Juan, Puerto Rico) Riyaaz Qawwali (Houston, Texas) Robert Brazile to receive SWAC Alumni Association Lifetime Achievement Award The National Folk Festival is the nation's longest-running traditional arts event. It's a free, three-day, outdoor multicultural celebration of the nation's finest traditional artists. The festival's producing organization, the non-profit National Council for the Traditional Arts (NCTA), works with a new local host community on a three-year cycle to present the National Folk Festival. Jackson was selected to host the traveling festival from 2025-2027. 'It's exciting to finally unveil for the public these eight excellent artists, who highlight the dizzying array of sounds and traditions Jackson audiences can expect from the full Festival program this November,' said Blaine Waide, executive director of the National Council for the Traditional Arts (NCTA). 'Blues, gospel, Irish, South Asian qawwali, music from across the country—no matter what you enjoy, there's going to be something for you at Jackson's first National Folk Festival. And it's all free!' Three-hundred artists are expected to take part in this year's event, with more than 30 different musical groups performing on as many as six outdoor performance venues throughout downtown Jackson. More performers will be announced as they are confirmed. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
