Dawn Landes will present 18 selections from the Songbook this Friday as part of PineCone’s Down Home Concert series, joined by a star-studded cast of musicians, includiong Charly Lowry, Rissi Palmer, Kamara Thomas, Watchhouse’s Emily Frantz, and Violet Bell’s Lizzy Ross.
In 2007, Rissi Palmer became the first Black woman to have a country song reach a Billboard chart since Dona Mason in 1987. Palmer was acutely aware of the 20-year gap, which she came to understand more as an erasure of the contributions of Black women to country music than a simple absence of their presence.
Henderson County (Aug 25, 2022) - The Community Foundation of Henderson County has awarded the Will & Deni McIntyre Foundation a $15,000 to help fund "My Music with Rhiannon Giddens," a new series to be broadcast nationwide by PBS beginning in May 2023.