Arkansas Roots Music Festival Planned for May 29
05/19/2021
JONESBORO KASU and the Department of English, Philosophy and World Languages at Arkansas State University, together with the West End Neighborhood Association, will present the Arkansas Roots Music Festival on Saturday, May, 29. The festival will begin at 1 p.m. at Craighead Forest Park’s bandshell, 4910 S. Culberhouse Road, pavilion six. In case of rain, the festival will move to A-State’s Fowler Center. KASU 91.9 FM’s radio personality Marty Scarbrough will serve as master of ceremonies, and recordings made at the event will be used for various radio programs, including KASU’s noontime show Arkansas Roots.
JONESBORO â KASU and the Department of English, Philosophy and World Languages at Arkansas State University, together with the West End Neighborhood Association, will present the Arkansas Roots Music Festival on Saturday, May, 29.
The festival will begin at 1 p.m. at Craighead Forest Parkâs bandshell, 4910 S. Culberhouse Road, pavilion six. In case of rain, the festival will move to A-Stateâs Fowler Center.
KASU 91.9 FMâs radio personality Marty Scarbrough will serve as master of ceremonies, and recordings made at the event will be used for various radio programs, including KASUâs noontime show Arkansas Roots.
The festival, presented in conjunction with Delta Symposium XXVI, will feature a variety of musical styles with a special emphasis on rockabilly and the roots music that contributed to its history. The outdoor festival is free, pet friendly, and open to the public.
Ten Penny Gypsy Releases New Music Video
Five-time Arkansas CMA Award Nominees, Ten Penny Gypsy are releasing the music video for “Making Headway” from their album, “Fugitive Heart”
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With more than 50K Spotify streams, an international iTunes chart-topping single and five Arkansas CMA Award nominations under their belts, Ten Penny Gypsy are finally “Making Headway.” Following the success of their single and video for, “Your True You,” the Little Rock-based duo are releasing the music video for “Making Headway” on Monday, January 11th.
Shot in December with director Sharpe Dunaway, the “Making Headway” video features energized performance clips, set against the visually stunning Arkansas landscape. A pristine antique car adds to the classic ambiance of the clip.
50 Arkansas artists who made good noise in 2020
50 Arkansas artists who made good noise in 2020
December 29, 20207:43 pm (top left to top right) Bazi Owenz, Bailey Bigger, Joshua Asante, (bottom left to bottom right) The Eulogy Brothers, Elise Davis, DOT
Creators are going to create, and whether the upheaval of a year like 2020 stifles or fuels that process probably depends on the artist, and on the day. Many, undoubtedly, made music in 2020 at their own expense, investing time, money or both into projects they couldn’t support or promote with live performance, at least not for the foreseeable future. A good number of them, especially those who make music for a living, have spent the year devoted to an industry and to a live music landscape that may well emerge from Post-Pandemic Times looking very different than it did in 2019. But I’m willing to bet that by the time some of this quarantine-crafted music reaches the stage, congregants’ ears