Folk

The contemporary folk music scene and the Early Music scene intersect more than you might think. The Early Music ensemble Tenet proved it decisively with this program, demonstrating such sublime musicianship that I hope they preserve it for future concerts and in a recording studio.

'Top of the Mountain' is definitely a winner because of Patricia Vonne’s inimitable vocals.

Kaz Bielinski's songs are mostly about love: new love, lost love, forever love, and one-sided love.

Meet in the Middle is a well-honed and smoothly polished assortment of easy-listening melodies.

The candid lyricism of Carly Simon meets the easy listening vocalese of Fiona Apple on Lyndol Descant's new release.

'The Golden Shore' dishes up a sweet coalescence of sound with that of space.

'Swan and Wolf' is one of those albums defined as starkly scrumptious, dreamy, and haunting.

Even though there was technically one last night of South by Southwest 2018, it still seemed as if Saturday was the festival's one true finale.

There's a feeling of fine control you get when you listen to a Kim Richey album. Her songs dig outward in two directions from country/americana, into both folk and pop. And her silvery vocals, burnished with a constant, cool vibrato, lack twangy affectation, sounding almost weirdly non-manipulative – to paradoxically emotional effect.

Caroline Rose, Lucy Rose, and Soccer Mommy were among the Friday highlights at SXSW Music Festival 2018 on March 16 in Austin, Texas.