{"id":15206,"date":"2016-02-16T19:06:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T02:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=15206"},"modified":"2016-02-16T23:15:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T06:15:28","slug":"28th-annual-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2016\/02\/28th-annual-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"28TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15224\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/judy-collins2.jpg\" alt=\"judy-collins2\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/judy-collins2.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/judy-collins2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>FOLK ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL ANNOUNCES\u00a0\u00a0 KEYNOTE SPEAKER AND ARTIST SHOWCASES FOR THE 28<sup>TH<\/sup>\u00a0ANNUAL CONFERENCE<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>FEBRUARY 17-21, 2016<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3><strong>FOLK LEGEND JUDY COLLINS CONFIRMED AS SPEAKER AND PERFORMER ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>MORE THAN 190 ARTISTS FROM 11 COUNTIRES SLATED TO PERFORM DURING CONFERENCE AT THE WESTIN HOTEL CROWN CENTER IN KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2016 ARTIST HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE DARLINGSIDE (USA), JEFFREY FOUCAULT (USA), LOS TEXMANIACS (USA), THE SOORLEYS (AUSTRALIA), WE BANJO 3 (IRELAND), TARABBAND (SWEDEN) AND THE DEAD SOUTH (CANADA)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH \u201c<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kcSOIA2HDMQ&amp;feature=youtu.be\"><strong>WHAT HAPPENS AT FOLK ALLIANCE<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026Folk Alliance tops my \u201cFavorite Festivals\u201d list, and has since my first day there.\u201d \u2013<em>Elmore Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026They jammed all day in the hotel lobby. Concerts in the big ballrooms. Showcases all night in three floors of hotel rooms.\u201d\u2014<em>KCUR<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.folk.org\/\"><strong>Folk Alliance International<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is delighted to announce\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.folk.org\/?page=speakerseries\"><strong>Judy Collins<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0as its Keynote speaker as well as the official artist showcase\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.folk.org\/?page=2016showcaseartists\"><strong>line-up<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for the 28<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0annual conference being held February 17-21, 2016, at the Westin Hotel Crown Center in Kansas City, Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiverse and plentiful enough to satisfy any lover of good music\u201d (<em>Americana Times<\/em>), Folk Alliance International will showcase more than 190 acts from 11 countries, including the United States, Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom, Sweden, New Zealand, Australia, Denmark, Estonia, India, and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>A unique and one-of-a-kind annual conference, Folk Alliance is the world\u2019s largest gathering of the folk music industry and community, crossing a diverse array of genres, including Appalachian, Bluegrass, Blues, Cajun, Celtic, Roots, Traditional, World, Singer-Songwriters, and more.\u00a0Apply for media credentials\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.folk.org\/?page=Media\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe certainly feature legends and luminaries,\u201d says Aengus Finnan, Executive Director of Folk Alliance International, \u201cbut the most exciting aspect of Folk Alliance are the showcases by artists you\u2019ve never heard of but will never forget.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A platform for emerging talent, over the years Folk Alliance private showcases have featured breakthrough artists, including Nickel Creek, Dom Flemings, Rhiannon Giddens, Serena Ryder, Valerie June, The Milk Carton Kids, The Stray Birds, John Fullbright and Mary Gauthier.<\/p>\n<p>Boasting a yearly attendance of over 2500 registrants, the conference features official showcases, exhibitors, panels and workshops held under one roof, bringing together musicians, educators and music industry professionals from throughout the world to share ideas, network, and promote folk music.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Judy Collins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With an iconic 50-album body of work, Judy Collins is known for her imaginative interpretations of traditional and contemporary folk standards and her own poetically poignant original compositions. She has garnered several Top 10 hits and gold- and platinum-selling albums. Her stunning rendition of Joni Mitchell\u2019s \u201cBoth Sides Now\u201d from her landmark 1967 album,\u00a0<em>Wildflowers<\/em>, has been entered into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Her dreamy and sweetly intimate version of \u201cSend In the Clowns,\u201d a ballad written by Stephen Sondheim for the Broadway musical\u00a0<em>A Little Night Music<\/em>, won \u201cSong of the Year\u201d at the 1975 Grammy Awards. She recently released her first studio album in four years,\u00a0<em>Strangers Again<\/em>, which includes a cast of icons and young talents performing with her, from Willie Nelson, Jackson Browne and Jeff Bridges to Glen Hansard, Ari Hest and Bhi Bhiman.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15207\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FAI2016-press-release-graphic.jpg\" alt=\"FAI2016 press release graphic\" width=\"600\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FAI2016-press-release-graphic.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/FAI2016-press-release-graphic-300x87.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; FOLK ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL ANNOUNCES\u00a0\u00a0 KEYNOTE SPEAKER AND ARTIST SHOWCASES FOR THE 28TH\u00a0ANNUAL CONFERENCE FEBRUARY 17-21, 2016 FOLK LEGEND JUDY COLLINS CONFIRMED AS SPEAKER AND PERFORMER ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19 MORE THAN 190 ARTISTS FROM 11 COUNTIRES SLATED TO PERFORM DURING CONFERENCE AT THE WESTIN HOTEL CROWN CENTER IN KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI 2016 ARTIST HIGHLIGHTS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1058],"tags":[3151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15206"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15225,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15206\/revisions\/15225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}