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The majestic backdrop for the first annual Tortuga Music Festival will be the very thing its performing artists are working to save: the ocean. The two-day event, organized by Rock the Ocean and presented by Landshark Lager, is set for April 13-14, 2013, on the beaches of Fort Lauderdale, Fla...

Rick Diamond, Getty Images This Saturday, Nov. 17, Avett Brothers bassist Bob Crawford will walk in the St. Jude Give Thanks Walk in Raleigh, N.C., in honor of the miracle that is his 3-year-old daughter. Last year, Hallie Crawford was diagnosed with a brain tumor that doctors deemed incurable...

Lee Brice, Jerrod Niemann and Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum were among the artists who presented awards to the writers and co-writers of songs they've recorded in the past year at Sunday night's (Oct. 28) annual SESAC songwriter awards gala in Nashville...

The Avett Brothers' bass player, Bob Crawford, is taking time off from the group to focus on his 22-month-old daughter, Hallie, who is battling a brain tumor. The little girl began having seizures a month ago, which is when the tumor was first discovered...

The Avett Brothers are hard at work on their latest album, but don't expect a release in the next several months, despite press reports to the contrary. The band's Asheville, N.C. recording sessions are going well, but the guys are taking their time deciding which of the many potential tunes should be on the album...

Check out this cool new video from the Avett Brothers! Created during their two recent sold-out shows at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, this time lapse video is made up of hundreds of still photos taken right from the Ryman stage, spanning set up for the first show through the end of the second show (complete with the band dressed as mummies for Halloween...

Who says you need electric guitars to rock? This is the second year that the Avett Brothers spent their Halloween weekend in Nashville, but instead of selling out the city's famed Ryman Auditorium one night, the folk-rockers sold it out two nights in a row...

Mary Gauthier's wry sense of humor brought so much good cheer to the audience gathered on September 9 at Nashville's historic Station Inn, it was as if a pressure valve had released pent-up tension leaving jubilation behind. Not that those at the Americana Music Festival take themselves overly seriously, but Mary's showcase did almost immediately follow the festival's star-studded awards ceremony