• HOME
• ROSTER
• TOURS
• CONTACT

select an artist
AfroCubism
Agnes Obel
Alessi's Ark
Alyssa Graham
American Beauty Project
Benjy Davis Project
Bhi Bhiman
Bill Wyman & The Rhythm Kings
The Black Swans
Booker T. & The MG’s
Buckwheat Zydeco
Cara Dillon
Carolina Chocolate Drops
Catherine Russell
Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Chris Garneau
C.J. Chenier
Dan Zanes
David Wax Museum
Debo Band
Don Byron New Gospel Quintet
Dixie Hummingbirds
Eliades Ochoa
Fatoumata Diawara
Fernando Otero
Grupo Fantasma
The Holmes Brothers
Hot Club of Cowtown
John Wesley Harding
John Doe
John Doe & Exene Cervenka
Josh Ritter
Juana Molina
Juliana Hatfield
Justin Robinson and the Mary Annettes
Konono N°1
Kristin Hersh
Leyla McCalla
Luther “Guitar Junior” Johnson
Magic Slim & The Teardrops
Maria McKee
Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens
Nina Nastasia
Orchestra Baobab
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo
Oumou Sangare
Pat McGee
Portico Quartet
Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters
Rosanne Cash
Samantha Crain
Spiro
STAX!
Steeleye Span
Toumani Diabaté
The Unthanks
Warsaw Village Band
Yat-Kha

© Copyright 2009
Concerted Efforts, LLC

Catherine Russell along with Various Artists on the album "Boardwalk Empire: Volume 1" have been Awarded a GRAMMY for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media. The album features music from the Award Winning HBO-TV series "Boardwalk Empire", and includes Catherine Russell singing "Crazy Blues" accompanied by Mark Shane on the piano. Catherine Russell’s 4th solo album, “Strictly Romancin’” (World Village/Harmonia Mundi) was released on February 14.

On February 28, 2012 Grammy award-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops will release their next studio album Leaving Eden (Nonesuch Records) produced by Buddy Miller. The album was recorded in Nashville and features Rhiannon Giddens, Dom Flemons with guitarist Hubby Jenkins and the band’s newest touring member, New Orleans native – Leyla McCalla on cello/vocals and banjo.

CJ Chenier- Can't Sit Down - Best Regional Roots Music Album Afrocubism - Afrocubism - Best World Music Album Various Artists - including Catherine Russell - Boardwalk Empire Volume 1 - Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media The 54th annual Grammy Awards will be held February 12, 2012. Congratulations to our nominees! For more info visit grammy.com

Concerted Efforts is thrilled to announce the addition of three new talents to the roster: Bhi Bhiman, Leyla McCalla, and Alessi's Ark. Alessi's Ark is the musical project of Alessi Laurent-Marke, a folk singer/songwriter who resides in West London. Currently on tour with Laura Marling, Alessi's Ark "will leave you utterly spellbound" says Clash Music. Living in New Orleans, Leyla McCalla can be heard playing her cello in local clubs, on the radio, and in many side projects including with the Grammy Award winning Carolina Chocolate Drops. A first generation Sri Lankan American, Bhi Bhiman brings a soulful, bluesy twist to folk rock . He's "instantly striking and unique, a slapdash mixture of Bill Withers, Richie Havens, and Little Richard" says The San Francisco Bay Guardian.

Dan is currently finishing up work on the latest Dan Zanes and Friends release, Little Nut Tree, the official follow up album to the 2007 Grammy winner Catch That Train. The album is a mix of new songs written by Dan and friends and covers, mostly traditional with Dan's unique arrangements. Special guests on the album include Andrew Bird, Sharon Jones and the Sierra Leone Refugee All-stars. Street date September 13, 2011.

Concerted Efforts is excited to welcome Agnes Obel to the roster. Feeling musically related to Roy Orbison, Agnes currently lives in Berlin and possesses the rare gift of a songbird’s voice, bringing to mind Ane Brun, Joanna Newsom or even Ricki Lee Jones. Obel's music "brims with a barely concealed passion that has helped make her quiet riot in-the-heart album a huge European seller," says Time Magazine. On April 12, the internationally acclaimed songwriter/composer will release her debut album, Philharmonics in the U.S. on PIAS America.

Congratulations to the Carolina Chocolate Drops (Genuine Negro Jig - Best Traditional Folk Album), Toumani Diabaté and Ali Farka Touré (Ali and Toumani - Best Traditional World Music Album), Grupo Fantasma (El Existential - Best Latin Rock, Alternative Or Urban Album) and Konono No 1 and Oumou Sangare ("Imagine" - Best Pop Collaboration With Vocalswith Herbie Hancock, Pink, India.Arie, Seal & Jeff Beck) for their Grammy wins.

Recently anointed as Boston’s Americana Artist of the Year (2010 Boston Music Awards), the David Wax Museum has been called “one of Boston’s hottest new bands” (Boston Globe) and “Infectious” (Bob Boilen, NPR). In the upcoming months David Wax Museum will release their new album, Everything Is Saved - produced by Sam Kassirer (Josh Ritter, Langhorne Slim, Erin McKeown) – and tour throughout the Northeast and Midwest in support of their release, including a March 27th appearance on Mountain Stage Radio Show.

On December 14th Blind Pig Records released The Essential Popa Chubby, a budget-priced CD from the high octane New York guitarist. For this special collection, Popa Chubby hand-picked sixteen of the hottest fan favorites from his ten Blind Pig releases over the past decade. This electrifying selection showcases not only his hard-charging fire and brimstone, but also Popa's engaging storytelling, versatility and distinctive fusing of differing genres and styles such as old school R&B, rap, funk, outlaw country, melodic rock, and blues.

Rosanne Cash- The List - Best Americana Album Carolina Chocolate Drops - Genuine Negro Jig - Best Traditional Folk Album Toumani Diabaté (with Ali Farka Touré) - Ali and Toumani - Best Traditional World Music Album Grupo Fantasma - El Existential - Best Latin Rock, Alternative Or Urban Album Konono No 1 and Oumou Sangare (with Herbie Hancock, Pink, India.Arie, Seal & Jeff Beck) - "Imagine" - Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals The 52nd annual Grammy Awards will be held February 13, 2011. Congratulations to our nominees! For more info visit grammy.com

Concerted Efforts is excited to welcome Grupo Fantasma to the roster. Known as the funkiest, finest, and hardest working Latin orchestra to come out of the United States in the last decade, the band has garnered critical acclaim worldwide for their adventurous albums, prudent songwriting and unprecedented live shows. “Grupo Fantasma is as tight as one would expect from a band that routinely backs up Prince” exclaimed LA Weekly and the Washington Post affirmed that “the ten members represent a new generation of latin music.”

Congratulations to Rosanne Cash, whose acclaimed release The List won "Album of the Year" at the 2010 Americana Music Honors and Awards.

Composed, the newly published memoir from acclaimed singer and songwriter Rosanne Cash, will debut on The New York Times Book Review hardcover, nonfiction bestseller list at No. 20 on August 29th. The book — in which Cash shares her recollections growing up as Johnny Cash’s eldest daughter and coming into her own as a performer, daughter, and mother — has been called “one of the best accounts of an American life you’ll likely ever read” by the Chicago Tribune and “wise, honest, and utterly engaging” by the Washington Post. Composed has earned rave reviews from media outlets across the country, including Entertainment Weekly, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer, The Daily Beast, the Forth Worth Star-Telegram, as well as starred reviews from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly.

On June 8, Samantha Crain released her new album on Ramseur Records, You (Understood) which honors 16 specific people in her life who significantly influenced her craft. With You (Understood), Crain once again looks closely at life and people and is able to conjure a mood to bring the listener into her own magical world where the ordinary is weird and small things take on significance. Samantha has recently been featured in Spin, Rolling Stone, and Paste Magazine, and she made her first appearance at Bonnaroo this year.

Selling over 15,000 copies since its release on May 4, So Runs the World Away, will mark Josh Ritter's best chart debut to-date. The album has been featured in the New York Times, Spin, Paste Magazine, NPR, and the Boston Globe. Recorded over 15 months at the Great North Sound Society in Maine, with additional recording at Brooklyn's Saltlands Studio, So Runs The World Away continues Ritter's longtime collaboration with producer/keyboard player Sam Kassirer, and the (newly christened) Royal City Band: Zack Hickman, Austin Nevins, Liam Hurley, and Kassirer.

Vocalist Catherine Russell’s 3rd album for World Village/Harmonia Mundi has jumped to the #1 position at both JazzWeek and Roots Music Report's top Jazz Charts. The album contains gems from the 1920’s through the Present, from the likes of Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Peggy Lee, Maxine Sullivan, Wynonie Harris, Howlin’ Wolf, Rachelle Garniez, and Catherine’s dad, Luis Russell. Hear Catherine Russell on NPR's "Fresh Air" April 16 and NPR's "Weekend Edition" May 1 YouTube clip - live @ Joe's Pub

CCD's first release on Nonesuch Records, produced by Joe Henry, has reached #6 on the Amazon chart, #1 on the Billboard Bluegrass chart (first ever for an African-American artist), and #5 on the Americana chart. Features in Rolling Stone, the New Yorker, USA Today, SPIN, Paste, and the NY Post

Congratulations to Buckwheat Zydeco on winning the Grammy Award for Best Zydeco Or Cajun Music Album for the Alligator Records debut Lay Your Burden Down! Buckwheat has been nominated 5 times in 3 different categories over the past 30 years - this is his first win.