SANTA CRUZ – Folk music icon and longtime Santa Cruz County resident Mary McCaslin died Oct. 2 at the age of 76 at her home in Hemet. McCaslin battled Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, a rare ...

Mary McCaslin, a pure-voiced folk singer who sang plaintive laments for the fading Old West, reimagined pop and rock classics as mountain ballads and was an innovator of open tunings on the guitar, ...

BELLOWS FALLS -- Before Gillian Welch or Iris DeMent or Nanci Griffith, there was Mary McCaslin. Her rich, pure voice can fill a room, backed only by her open-D-tuned guitar. It’s a sound a generation ...

SANTA CRUZ — The Rotary Club of Freedom has assembled a group of local musicians to pay tribute to a beloved once-local folk singer who died last year while also raising funds for the victims of March ...

A few months ago, Sharon Allen finally released her long awaited CD, “Along the Way.” She does some lovely covers of other artists” material, such as her duet on Townes Van Zandt”s “If I Needed You” ...

May 28 marked the one-year anniversary of the unexpected death of Laura Ellen Hopper, beloved host of radio station KPIG”s mid-day show and its program director. Old-timers in the local radio ...