Beginning on Sept. 19, more than 250 artists will perform or participate in panel discussions and interviews during a packed AmericanaFest Week. Saddle Mountain Post sat down with Jed Hilly, the organization’s Executive Director, to get a preview.

By doing things their way since the start, the pair have slowly curated the La Honda Sound. It is a sound pursued not because of its commercial appeal but because of its personal appeal.

“I don’t know what to have you do,” Delevante said. “Do you want me to play my guitar?” Childers offered kindly. “Yeah! Play!” She responded enthusiastically. What she expected to…

“W.B. is a hero of mine,” Colter Wall tells me from a landline in Southwestern Saskatchewan. “I’d be hard pressed to find anyone who cares about music and cares about…