Arts May 19 MerleFest celebrates music from the Appalachian region and boosts the local economy By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport, Alison Thoet
Arts Nov 08 Aspiring border agent, dancer, engineer identified among Astroworld concert dead Clearer pictures began to emerge Sunday of some of the eight young people who died when fans at a Travis Scott concert in Houston suddenly surged toward the stage. By Randall Chase, Mike Catalini, Associated Press
Nation Sep 10 5 Stories: What’s behind the ‘Great Resignation,’ recycled tents for refugees and other stories you missed Thousands of discarded tents from a UK music festival are repurposed for refugees, global chip shortages prompt General Motors to shut down assembly plants and why women are posting videos about taking out their own IUDs. Check out these stories… By Deema Zein, Julia Griffin
Arts Jul 28 Lollapalooza to require vaccination card or negative test The four-day festival starts Thursday and is expected to be back at full capacity, with roughly 100,000 daily attendees. After missing last summer because of the coronavirus, it will be easily Chicago's largest gathering since the pandemic started. By Kathleen Foody, Don Babwin, Associated Press
Arts May 01 Watch 6:48 Trombone Shorty on what happens when New Orleans’ musical heartbeat falls silent Jazz Fest, one of the nation’s liveliest annual music celebrations, should have been full-throttle this week in New Orleans. Instead, the city remains locked down, a hot spot in the COVID-19 pandemic with close to 6,500 cases and over 400… By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport
Aug 16 Watch 7:11 What Woodstock taught us about protest in a time of polarization By Jeffrey Brown, Courtney Norris It’s been 50 years since Woodstock made music history. The groundbreaking festival is seen today as a nexus of freedom, drugs and rock and roll -- and as a defining symbol of 1960s counter-culture, idealism and anti-war sentiment. Jeffrey Brown… Continue watching
Jul 31 Organizers cancel troubled Woodstock 50 festival By Mesfin Fekadu, Associated Press The three-day festival was originally scheduled for Aug. 16-18, but holdups included permit denials and the loss of a financial partner and a production company. Continue reading
Jun 13 Watch 6:09 How this Palestinian music festival is breaking down cultural barriers By John Yang Typically, the Palestinian West Bank is referenced in the context of Middle East peace talks. But for the past three years, the organizers of the three-day Palestine Music Expo, or PMX, have sought to encourage people to open their minds,… Continue watching
May 24 Watch 6:40 At Moogfest, the music revolution will be synthesized By PBS NewsHour Moogfest, named after inventor Robert Moog, is a celebration of the art, engineering and technology of synthesizers, machines that create sounds electronically. Jeffrey Brown takes us to the gathering for a look at how experiments in technology and music can… Continue watching
Apr 10 Watch 6:13 Big Ears Festival breaks barriers for open-minded music lovers By PBS NewsHour Big Ears is a small, personal and eclectic music festival that aims to showcase how diverse genres can stretch and influence one another. This year, acts like the Kronos Quartet and Rhiannon Giddens and musicians from Wilco and The National… Continue watching