New Signing! Bitch

Concerted Efforts is happy to announce that Bitch has joined our roster! Bitch makes witchy poet pop. She does it with violins and synthesizers, and the songs she writes are spectral, heartbreaking, political, and beautiful. The longstanding queer music icon has been performing for over 20 years. She grew up with a tap dancing studio Read more

Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, and Our Native Daughters highlighted by NPR

Concerted Efforts artists Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, and Our Native Daughters have been highlighted in the NPR article “How Black women reclaimed country and Americana music in 2021”! Read the full article on NPR here. Read more | Check out the full NPR article here

New Signing! Ali McGuirk

Concerted Efforts is excited to welcome Ali McGuirk to the roster! Known for commanding the room with her dynamic voice and heartfelt songwriting, Ali blends classic soul power with a folk songwriter lyricism. She has the rare ability to silence a room with just a few words of a song. With a vocal style rooted Read more

Congratulations to CE’s GRAMMY Nominated Artists!

Congratulations to our Concerted Efforts GRAMMY nominated artists, listed below! RHIANNON GIDDENS – Nominated in the Best Folk Album category for “They’re Calling Me Home” and in the Best American Roots Song category for “Avalon”. ELIANE ELIAS – Nominated in the Best Latin Jazz Album category for “Mirror Mirror”. Read more | Check out all of the 2022 GRAMMY nominated artists

New Signing! Bette Smith

We are pleased to announce the addition of rock & soul singer Bette Smith to our roster for representation in North America. Bette traces elements of her life-affirming album The Good, The Bad and The Bette to her childhood in Brooklyn, NY. Musically, it connects to the gospel music she heard in church and the Read more

Jake Xerxes Fussell Announces Album, Shares New Song “Love Farewell” On Pitchfork

North Carolina folk singer and scholar Jake Xerxes Fussell has announced his new album Good and Green Again will be coming out January 21 via Paradise of Bachelors. Listen to the new song “Love Farewell” below and check out the full article about the release on Pitchfork here. For more information, visit Jake Xerxes Fussell’s artist page. Read more | Click here to read the full article

New Signing! Jake Xerxes Fussell

Concerted Efforts is excited to welcome Jake Xerses Fussell to the roster! As a singer, guitarist, and folk music interpreter, Jake Xerxes Fussell has distinguished himself as one of his generation’s preeminent interpreters of traditional (and not so traditional) “folk” songs, a practice which he approaches with a refreshingly unfussy lack of nostalgia. By recontextualizing Read more | Jake Xerxes Fussell

Rosanne Cash to headline at the virtual Johnny Cash Heritage Festival

Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Rosanne Cash will perform the first-ever concert from her father’s boyhood home in Dyess. This concert will headline the 2021 virtual Johnny Cash Heritage Festival slated for Oct. 15-16. “I am thrilled and delighted to return to Dyess to perform the first public concert from the living room of my father’s boyhood home,” Cash Read more | Click here to read the full article

Amythyst Kiah Shares Live Performance Video of “Fancy Drones (Fracture Me)”

Following a poignant performance at the 2021 Americana Music Awards last week, Amythyst Kiah presents a live performance video of her original song “Fancy Drones (Fracture Me),” one of the standout tracks from her acclaimed Rounder Records debut Wary + Strange.  “This song started as a poem,” says Amythyst. “First World modern society allows us so much Read more | Watch "Fancy Drones (Fracture Me)" Live

Alexa Rose’s album Headwaters out now!

Listen to Headwaters on Bandcamp Praise for Headwaters“The nine tracks on Headwaters submerges you into Rose’s thorny examination of human nature through petals of poignant lyrics, bucolic arrangements, and of course, Alexa’s mesmerizing vocals”- KUTX “the storytelling is poignant, and her vocals are delicate.”– Stereogum “Alexa Rose’s sophomore album Headwaters, a sparse and meditative number that gives Rose’s gorgeous Read more | Listen to 'Headwaters' now!