Matthew Smith takes 300-year-old hymns and modernizes them by writing brand-new music - acoustic guitar-driven - for 21st century ears. The 28-year-old singer and songwriter from East Nashville, Tenn.
The 12-string guitarist Sarah Louise and fiddler Sally Anne Morgan (Black Twig Pickers, Pelt) understand that folk music is a music that moves forward, as old hymns and songs passed down are just as ...
The hymns of Charles Wesley will come to life at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Mount Gretna Campmeeting, with a little help from Wesley himself. Or, that is, Lamar Dourte playing the role of Wesley, ...