#Bailey Biggers

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Folk Alliance International Conference 2023 Highlights

MEMPHIS WAS THE FIRST “CITY OF HONOR”

https://folk.org/announcing-our-first-city-of-honor-memphis-tennessee/

By Michael Sangiacomo

KANSAS CITY, MO — The folk music old guard that dominated the Folk Alliance International conferences for the past 35 years has passed the guitar to a new generation that is younger, energized, and mostly female and non-white.

And the kids are all right.

In the BC years (before covid), the annual five-day conference that draws more than 1,000 musicians from around the world was largely the province of aging performers and music lovers.

This year, the beat has changed. Most of the performers were young, female, and non-white lending a whole new energy to the event that was held this past weekend in Kansas City. The LGBTQI community was also well-represented.

Memphis was everywhere, chosen as the “First City of Honor” with Memphis-oriented workshops, speakers, and a slew of talented performers including Amy LaVere, Bailey Biggers, Talibah Safiya, Yella P of Memphisissippi Sound, violinist Alice Hasen and the brilliant Aquarian Blood.

Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, poet, and actor Valerie June astounded with her keynote speech that said love and hope can defeat hate and fear.

As she spoke about the global crisis, the “technological hacking of the human mind and body” and nuclear war, she abruptly stopped and flashed her trademark smile. She walked to center stage, picked up a banjo, and played a delicate version of “What A Wonderful World” in defiance of the doomsayers.

Wherever she walked she was treated like royalty. Women and children rushed up and hugged her.

She now lives in Brooklyn but said she would always consider Memphis her home.

Like the rest of us, June went from concert to concert to hear the young artists.

The annual gathering is designed to allow music critics, agents, disc jockeys, and concert and festival bookers to get up close and personal with new artists and discover new talent.

It’s also a chance for singers and musicians to strut their stuff in the smaller, intimate venues of the Westin Hotel and gather new fans. There are organized workshops and concerts during the day and evening, though much of the action started at 10:30 p.m. and continued almost to daybreak in hundreds of hotel rooms converted into makeshift music spots. Sometimes a performer played for just one or two people, a memorable experience.

There were a few older performers here, like Tom Paxton and Janis Ian, who acted in more of a non-performing, advisory capacity. Ian received a well-deserved lifetime achievement award. Paxton said he was just there to be inspired by the young people.

Instead of the usual performances by folk icons like Livingston Taylor, John McCutcheon and Eliza Gilkyson, visitors chose between blues singers from Memphis, storytellers from Ireland, brash bands from Australia, and new Americana voices from everywhere,

The toughest challenge is choosing who to see since every concert choice means missing hundreds of other mini-concerts going on elsewhere.

In one, Josh White Jr. seemed a little baffled when his co-performer, 92-year-old jazz genius, composer, and orchestra conductor David Amram asked him to play “House of the Rising Sun” a second time. But he smiled and acquiesced.

Amram impulsively invited young musicians he just met hours earlier to join them. Violinist Rahel-Liis Aasrand of Estonia and percussionist Natalia Miranda from Guatemala nervously joined Amram and White in an impromptu jazz number, as if they had played together for years.

Amy Lavere has a voice much larger than her lithe frame which was dwarfed by the stand-up bass she played. Her voice is at once sweet and powerful and her accompanying guitarist and violinist could not have been better.

Alice Hasen and showed just how versatile the violin could be, switching gears from classical to folk to almost hip-hop.

There was music around every corner. In one room, Brit Shane Hennessey played an instrumental tribute to Chet Atkins. In another, the laid-back Aquarian Blood’s J.B. Horrell played the guitar upright between his knees while his wife, Laurel, sang along.

And the talent goes on and on, stretching out through the halls and into the early morning hours as it expands the definition of folk music far, far beyond the notion of a guy with a guitar.

For more information on the Folk Alliance and how to attend next year’s conference, go to www.folk.org.

[merthurians-prat-and-idiot]

Also,,, the way Jonathan Bailey makes Anthony's voice start to wobble & break when he gets emotional !! Pls 😭

[school-zones]

Imogen: “Power is very tempting…”

Laudna: “Maybe it’s our destiny to harness it.”

Imogen: “Maybe it’s our destiny to fight it.”

I would LOVE to see this sentiment get flipped later on in the campaign. Right now we see Laudna seriously questioning whether or not to give in to Delilah’s power and Imogen being the voice of reason. But as Imogen becomes even more powerful, tables could easily turn and she could want to give in. Maybe she even questions turning on her friends? Can Laudna survive that betrayal?

And maybe Laudna is the one who has to convince Imogen to fight it this time. Maybe it’s juicy and emotional. Maybe it’s peak conflict, just like Marisha likes. Maybe Laudna reminds Imogen about their conversation in the bread isle. Maybe she begs Imogen not to sever their tether. Maybe Laudna pleads with Imogen to fight power’s temptation—that it’s her destiny to fight it.

And maybe, probably, BAFTA award-winning Laura Bailey will break our hearts.

[meganwasbored]

Remember when Bree Campbell ran away from a school trip in a foreign country, broke multiple laws, entered a portal to another universe that she literally just found out existed, and fought in a war she would have had nothing to do with if she minded her freaking business, all for a boy she wasn’t even dating yet

[kaidanalenkosprmanager]

THE BEST OF PRIORITY: THE CITADEL (PART 1)

Featuring: Cmdr. Sophie Shepard, Lt. James Vega, EDI, and Thane Krios With: Flight Lt. Jeff "Joker" Moreau, Councilor Rannadril Bibsos Tembin Lesti Bensin Valern, Cmdr. Armando-Owen Bailey, and Kai Leng Kalahira, this one's heart is pure, but beset by wickedness and contention. Guide this one to where the traveler never tires, the lover never leaves, the hungry never starve. Guide this one, Kalahira, and she will be a companion to you as she was to me. Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition (2021)

[imgonnagetkilledbynutstink]

HOMIES I SOMEHOW JUST NOW REALIZED THAT I HAVE THE SAME GLASSES THAT TIM WEARS IN THE 80S I GOT THESE BEFORE I EVEN STARTED THE SHOW

[ellies-enrichment]

not ready for abby

ready to defend the actor though whoever it may be

[atinyladybug-art]

When in doubt and art block, make a Miku inspired OC. Presenting her. My most girlypop ever.

I decided to try something different and new with character designing so here we have a character with lots of details but less colours (only having 3) as opposed to my usual less detail characters with more colours (most my designs have a minimum of 5)

Texts below cut:

Dr Tatinanna Bailey

Level 3

Medical Department

Makes, services and maintains prosthetics for amputated personnel

Has a doctorate in engineering and a degree in nursing

Mute and Uses a tablet for communication. Got someone to programme a text-to-speech app with Miku's voicebank.

Inventory:

(Inventory is a tablet, a tablet pen in a shape of a leek, and those modern touchscreen flip-phones with a Miku keychain)

[fauxfroot]

i know people like seeing their favorite actors in things, but some of the fan casts i've seen for things are soooo wild. some of yall really just grab names you know with NO consideration for acting style or the types of characters they typically play. i know i think about these things more than the average person on account of actually being a trained actor but my god

[pocketgalaxies]

[thecobaltmonk]

LAURA FUCKING BAILEY!?

[playboybabyxx]

I need this bag now! Anyone wanna spoil me? You won't leave empty-handed ~(Although you will leave feeling empty and satisfied ~)

[blcssom]

closed starter for @lvciddreamt based on this ! ( open to m/f/nb )

"and here i thought your mom was pulling one over on me when she said you'd come home for the holidays." which, to be fair, their mother always thinks they're coming home for the holidays and, in reality, their visits have been few and far between. "thought you'd outgrown us."

[americanahighways]

REVIEW: Bailey Bigger "Resurrection Fern"

REVIEW: Bailey Bigger "Resurrection Fern" @baileybigger @americana_andy_ @americanahighways @madjackrecords #Listenbetter #americanamusic #americanahighways #newmusic2024 #resurrectionfern @markedgarstuart @helloganhulklogan @wylybigger @spookyspain @dannybanksdrummer #musicreviews

Bailey Bigger – Resurrection Fern Bailey Bigger has already spent a lifetime writing. Though the Arkansas native is just 24 years old, she began crafting her own stories as a child, spinning them into songs as a six-year-old. She started recording before she hit her teens and, as she approached young adulthood, EPs, awards for songwriting and TV placements followed. Now, at 24, she’s already…

[soopysoap]

can't stop listening to the new beatles song so here r some "now and then i miss you / now and then i want you to be there for me" duos

[worldlydesiretemple]

i’ve come to make amends and drop an update. hello, half slicers, bugsnaxers, and portalers as well as hlvraiers.

sometimes coolatta fam can be an interdimensional bureaucrat, the interdimensional bureaucrat’s trophy wife, eli vance’s daughter, eli vance’s daughter’s girlfriend [ daughter in law ], the purple muppet from the bug game as an estranged(?) rebellious teenage(?) daughter, fucked up bootboy, son made of code, and ouppy made of hopes and dreams

cowboy has still not been unlocked.

coolatta fam can be an interdimensional bureaucrat, son made of code, a fucked up bootboy, eli vance's daughter, eli vance's daughter's girlfriend [ daughter in law ], and soon a cowboy