Offered without critique, a smorgasbord of music that was released this year.
Smith, currently the subject of a major museum exhibition, is best remembered today for compiling the Anthology of American Folk Music.
The founder of L.A. new-music group Wild Up leads a spirited concert of Americana, including Jeff Midkiff’s Mandolin Concerto.
The musical world is teeming with concerts and ideas to help shake off the end-of-year darkness.
Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’s work is bold and beautiful and couldn’t be timelier.
