Rufus Wainwright

2023’s Americana festivals – where we are spending our summer?

May 26, 2023 Emily Dongray 2

In the blinking dawn of the new year, many of the festivals announced their line-ups. They dropped exciting news about headliners, and some early-bird tickets went on sale, but in the wave of resolutions and starting […]

Video: Rufus Wainwright featuring John Legend “Heading for Home”

May 9, 2023 Ed Donnelly 0

Rufus Wainwright brings in the big guns for his new album including John Legend on ‘Heading for Home’. The two performers are featured in a new music video, a straight forward studio performance. Accompanied by banjo […]

Rufus Wainwright “Harvest” – from WBS

May 4, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

WBS – that’s Wainwright, Bird and Stills, and in this incidence the Stills is Chris Stills. The Bird is Andrew Bird, no exciting Byrd connection there but hey, you can’t have everything. And Rufus Wainwright doesn’t […]

Interview: Terre Roche on gigging across America with sister Maggie in 1970

April 13, 2023 Martin Johnson 2

Learning to play the guitar by watching TV with Laura Weber. The Roches carved out their own niche in music from the late ‘70s to the ‘90s and while they were marketed as a folk act […]

Rufus Wainwright reveals new folk album out in June

March 9, 2023 Emily Dongray 0

Rufus Wainwright has announced ‘Folkocracy‘ will be released on June 2nd via BMG. This is the Canadian-American’s 11th album that comes after ‘Unfollow the Rules‘ was released in 2020. ‘Folkocracy‘ includes the new single ‘Down in […]