Category: Local Music

Maren Morris continues her artistic journey on “Humble Quest”

It can be easy to forget that Maren Morris is much further along in her career than her age might suggest. The Grammy-winning 31-year-old singer-songwriter has been making music for more than half of her life.The hard-earned wisdom she’s accrued along the way informs and enriches every track on Humble Quest, the Arlington native’s third… Read more »

Listen up to these North Texas artists on Bandcamp Friday

For more than two years, as the COVID-19 pandemic has made earning a living as a musician even more challenging than it is under normal circumstances, the streaming platform Bandcamp has hosted “Bandcamp Friday,” on the first Friday of each month. It’s a day when the company forgoes its revenue share to pass on to… Read more »

African American Roots Music Fest spotlights banjos, fiddles in Fort Worth

The first live Fort Worth African American Roots Music Festival is onstage this weekend at the Southside Preservation Hall. Brandi Waller-Pace established the festival to reclaim a tradition: Country fiddles, banjos, the jug band — they’re all part of African American traditions. Even for her, it was a discovery — that as a Black woman playing a… Read more »