CHANGE MAKERS: MY FAVORITES FROM 2023

Alan Richard

March 4, 2024

Soul Country

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Something changed in roots music in the past year. If many artists hadn’t yet turned their focus to social-justice issues, the attacks on LGBTQ+ people by leaders in Tennessee and other states helped tilt the scale. (Not to mention all the new laws restricting teaching about race and other topics in many classrooms across the country.)

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Trans artist Mya Byrne sings on stage with guitar

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Mya Byrne, Jessye DeSilva, Cidny Bullens, Emmylou Harris, Chris Pierce, Queeen Esther, Devon Gilfillian, Rhiannon Giddens, Rissi Palmer, Miko Marks

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Color Me Country

Hosted by Rissi Palmer, Color Me Country brings to the forefront the Black, Indigenous, and Latinx histories of country music that for too long have lived outside the spotlight and off mainstream airwaves.

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Rainey Day Fund

to support artists of color, artists with disabilities, artists in the 2SLGBTQIA+ community in the roots music sphere.

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Gay Ole Opry Playlist

Karen & the Sorrows have been building queer country community in Brooklyn by running the Queer Country Quarterly and the Gay Ole Opry (gayoleopry.com) since 2011. Most of these bands have come to play for us, but some we're still wishing on!

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