A group of Southeast artists is working to ensure that the music of Juneau songwriting icon Buddy Tabor endures and finds new audiences via online streaming platforms.
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Juneau Afternoon: The Buddy Tabor Project seeks wider audiences by putting Tabor’s music on streaming services
A preview of the effort by Justin Smith, Collette Costa, and others to make Southeast legend Buddy Tabor’s music available on streaming platforms. Other conversations include “Death, with Dessert” and a check-in with the Juneau Public Library.
Tongass Voices: Father-daughter production duo Joshua and Harmony Laboca bond through music
Local music producer Joshua Laboca and his daughter, Harmony, create songs together on YouTube as Harmony & jboaudioe.
Tongass Voices: Anna Mahanor on what it means to be a Rain Dog
Anna Mahanor is a musician, bartender and skateboarder here in Juneau. People may know her from her band, Rain Dogs.
Juneau’s Crystal Saloon to host storytelling event about diaspora and belonging
“What I want to do is to talk about that feeling of not being accepted between two worlds that really are one,” said artist Daniel Firmin.
Alaska-raised composer makes music from the sounds of nature
Matthew Burtner, who was born in Naknek and grew up around Alaska, has built an award-winning career around turning nature into music, using both field recordings and scientific data that he transforms into sound.
Juneau musician Annie Bartholomew’s new album is a different kind of Alaska survival story
“Sisters of White Chapel” is about the Klondike Gold Rush, from the perspective of the women and sex workers who lived in the mining towns.
‘We just let it rip’: Ketchikan trio Dude Mtn recaps 4-show Juneau tour
Some bands are hard to describe. Not Dude Mtn, says frontman and guitarist Cullen McCormick.
Folk Fest headliner Lone Piñon delayed by volcanic ash
Alaska Folk Festival organizers scrambled to rearrange the mainstage lineup Friday as it became clear that headliners Lone Piñon and several other performers would not make their scheduled sets.
‘Unceded’ event to highlight artists of color during Folk Fest
“We are encouraged to take up less space,” painter and poet Dita Devi said. “And I want us to take up a whole lot of space.”