Laurelyn’s song
“Anna Lee” (from Brother Wolf) is included
on Levon Helm’s upcoming CD, Dirt Farmer, released
October 30, 2007. www.levonhelm.com
The 2008 Grammy
for Best Traditional Folk Album goes to Levon Helm for Dirt
Farmer !
Levon Helm
took home the top honors at the third annual Folk
Alliance Awards Helm was named Traditional Artist
Of The Year at the Memphis, Tennessee event.
"Carpooling
on a Grammy Road:" Article by Jeri Rowe.
Levon performs Anna
Lee: Click to read about it in the LA
Times and the NYTimes
.
Brother Wolf
will be staged by the Human
Race Theatre and Rhythm In Shoes dance company in Dayton,
Ohio as part of their 2008-2009 seaon.
Beautiful Star 2007
breaks Triad Stage's box office records:
NC's Triad StageHas
a Grass-Roots Holiday Hit With Beautiful Star
– Kenneth Jones, Playbill.com
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to read full article
Beautiful Star still has its magic the 2nd time around: Greensboro
troupe uses bluegrass music to tell stories from the Bible
"A perfect gift bears repeating...Triad Stage's seasonal hit has
lost no glory with this second offering."
– Julie York Coppens, Charlotte Observer
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to read full review
Back, Brighter Than Ever: Triad Stage's Beautiful Star: An Appalachian
Nativity , will feature traditional Christmas music as well as
songs written by Laurelynn Dossett.
– Mary Martin Niepold, Winston-Salem Journal
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to read full article
A new tradition: Triad Stage brings back its quirky yet poignant
holiday show
– Brian Rose, Burlington Times-News
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to read full article
Brother Wolf
has been invited to present at the Songwriters Showcase at the
Festival for New Musicals on October 7, 2007, at the New World
Theatre in New York. www.namt.org
Polecat Creek has an Americana Music Association showcase at the Station Inn in Nashville on Saturday, November 3, 2007. www.americanamusic.org
Polecat Creek’s new CD, Ordinary Seasons, released in September 2007. www.polecatcreek.net
Preston Lane and Laurelyn featured in October 2007 issue of Our State Magazine. www.ourstate.com
Beautiful Star to return to Triad Stage for a four week run: November 23 – December 23, 2007. Rhiannon Giddens returning, with fiddler Stephanie Coleman and Andrew Eversole on banjo! www.triadstage.org
Riley Baugus (with Polecat Creek) and Rhiannon Giddens (of Beautiful Star and the Carolina Chocolate Drops) featured in September 2007 issue of Our State Magazine. www.ourstate.com
Laurelyn taught songwriting this summer at Augusta Heritage Center in Elkins, WV.
Brother Wolf featured at Appalachian Summer Festival in Boone, NC.
Laurelyn and Preston are writing Bloody
Blackbeard for June 2008 premiere at Triad
Stage.
Beautiful Star called "Best Original Music" in The Independent's "Best Theatre of 2006," and is scheduled for return to Triad Stage in December 2007. |