"Since Color Me Country has been on air, Rissi Palmer has quickly become a leader in the conversation pushing for more equity and inclusion in country music. Ahead of her stage takeover at The Long Road Fest we spoke to Rissi, Madeline Edwards, Chapel Hart Band, and Miko Marks about the work the show is doing for Black, Indigenous and other artists of color" - Matt Wickstrom
You can read the article HERE.
Thank you to the Grio for offering their platform. It was really beautiful to watch all the artists I’ve had on Color Me Country and Black Opry have a presence at CMA Fest this year. This was something I couldn’t have fathomed when I played my first fest in 2008. Next sentence… it’s time to go deeper. Click HERE to read the rest of my thoughts.
After a decade immersed in Nashville's country music scene, Marissa R. Moss has seen firsthand how pervasive gender inequalities affect female artists from all corners of the genre. Now, she's helping take control of the narrative — literally — with her new book, Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be.
Moss follows the trajectories of Kacey Musgraves, Maren Morris and Mickey Guyton as touch points for country's current climate, as all three have navigated the choppy waters of radio bias and helped broaden the genre's limitations.
Rissi is among several artists interviewed for this book. Check out Marissa's playlist HERE and get your copy of the book HERE.
I am honored to be included in this amazing group of women. You can learn more about the exhibit HERE.
GRAMMY-nominated blues artist Christone "Kingfish" Ingram today announces a stellar lineup of supporting acts for his upcoming tour Christone "Kingfish" Ingram Presents 662: Juke Joint Live, including genre-trailblazing singer-songwriters Rissi Palmer, Camille Parker, and Maggie Rose. Full list of dates with specified opening acts is below.
“I’m very excited to have these four incredible musicians join me for ‘662 Juke Joint Live.’ I have listened to their music and followed their success for some time now,” says Kingfish. “I think each of us have expanded the definition of our respective genres and we have been fortunate to receive support from the Americana music community. I’m quite confident fans will really enjoy what we will bring to the live stage.”
This tour, a partnership with Nashville-based Outback Presents, will take the 22-year-old Grammy-nominated guitarist, vocalist and songwriter across the country with dates beginning March 2022 and going through May. Rissi Palmer, Camille Parker, and Maggie Rose will join him as opening acts at various cities and venues around the country, including the Apollo Theater in New York City, ACL Live at Moody Theater in Austin, Symphony Hall in Atlanta, and the Ace Theater in Los Angeles. Click HERE to get your tickets.
What a way to end the year! Thank you so much, Guitar Girl Magazine, I had no idea you were putting me on the cover. Check out the digital issue now HERE, physical copies will be available mid January…
To see it all together is really something. I'm crying reading this, thank you for the acknowledgement and the reminder to keep fighting. My sisters showed out this year. Thank you Andrea Williams, Ann K. Powers, Jewly Hight, and Marcus K. Dowling. And this damn list of artists is like something out of my favorite playlist. To be named alongside these extraordinary women is unreal, read the whole thing HERE.
I’m taking the show to the UK, y’all!!! August 26-28, 2022, Color Me Country Radio and I will be at the Long Road Fest in Leicestershire!!! On August 27, The Front Porch Stage will be Rissi Palmer’s Color Me Country stage and I can’t wait to tell you who I’m bringing with me…announcement coming soon!!! Get your passport and come party with us… England ain’t ready 😉 Click HERE and get your ticket today!!!
"Rissi Palmer (also) received nominations in the Best Children's Music Album category for her contributions on two of the category's five nominated albums: the 1 Tribe Collective album All One Tribe, on which she performed her song “Little Black Girl, Little Black Boy," and the 123 Andres album Activate, on which she sings on the duet “I Just Can’t Sit Down.” - Sarah Edwards, INDY Week
Of Billboard’s 2019 top 50 country artists, only one was black. Four were women. None of them were black women. Now, with country music under the spotlight as it never has been before, is it finally moving beyond its white, male image?
Americana-folk singer Lady Nade explores the roots of country and Americana and its debt to black music, and reflects on her own place in a genre that is only now starting to confront its history. You can hear the full documentary HERE.
Tryon International Equestrian Center , 25 International Boulevard , Mill Spring, NC 28756
he Earl Scruggs Music Festival will be hosted at the Tryon International Equestrian Center in Mill Spring, NC from Friday, September 2 through Sunday, September 4, 2022. There are three stages: the Flint Hill Stage (main stage), the Foggy Mountain Stage, and Legends Workshop Stage. ESMF will include a family area with children’s activities.
Van Dyke Performance Space, Greensboro Cultural Center, 200 N Davie St, Greensboro, NC 27401
The NC Folk Festival’s annual presentation of “Songs of Hope & Justice” event will be September 8 at 8pm in the Van Dyke Performance Space. The concert, which will feature songs that shine a light on important social issues—past and present, will be hosted by North Carolina’s own singer-songwriter Laurelyn Dossett Music. Dossett is well known for her own protest songs, including “Vote Against Amendment One” and “My Beloved Enemy,” as well as others on regional topics such as the coal ash spill and the loss of textile jobs. Performances will include songs from folk legends such as Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and Odetta, as well as new and original songs underscoring today’s most pressing social challenges. Dossett has brought together an outstanding group of performers to celebrate the role of folk songs—specifically protest songs—in America. Additional performers include: Alice Gerrard, Rissi Palmer, Dori Freeman, Molly McGinn , Sam Fribush, Nick Falk, Alex Bingham, and more!
$28-40
The path to joy through creating community outside of traditional systems. Creating a path to alternative solutions and implementing them within the music industry. The Black Opry is pleased to create a community in which people can be authentically themselves and not feel displaced by traditional music industry standards. Join them in conversation about how this community developed and how it's impacting the country, Americana and folk music industries. Autumn Nicholas Rissi Palmer Leon Timbo | Artist Gina Miller | MNRK Music Group Shannon Sanders | BMI Holly G. | Black Opry
In 2021 UK Americana artist Lady Nade was invited by the BBC World Service to explore the roots of Country and Americana music and its debt to black music and to reflect on her own place in a genre that is only now starting to confront its history. A year on from the BBC documentary, Lady Nade will meet with some of the documentary contributors to discuss the impact of the BLM movement and the industry’s awakening to the issues of diversity within Americana and the roots music genres. Holly G. | Black Opry Alice Randall | Author Lady Nade Rissi Palmer
CMT today announced the stacked line-up for its second upcoming showcase in partnership with City Winery Nashville on Wednesday, September 28th at 7:30pm CT. An extension of CMT’s prestigious ‘Next Women of Country’ (NWOC) franchise, “CMT Next Women of Country: Celebrating the Classes of 2021 & 2022, presented by CMT Night Out Nashville and Change The Conversation,” these fan-focused showcases will spotlight a select group of female artists named to the past two franchise classes.
CMT’s Leslie Fram and Rissi Palmer will co-host the second CMT Night Out Nashville showcase, featuring performances in the round from Ashland Craft, Brittney Spencer, Chapel Hart, Harper Grae, Madeline Edwards, Morgan Wade and Renee Blair. Palmer will also perform. Tickets are on-sale now at citywinery.com/nashville.
$15
Joseph M. Bryan, Jr., Theater In The Museum Park, Raleigh, NC
The Music at the Museum series started during the pandemic to showcase diverse North Carolina bands that represent our state’s rich musical landscape. Recorded in the Museum galleries and presented with Come Hear North Carolina, this virtual concert series kicked off September 1, 2020, and premiered on PBS North Carolina in April 2021.
This October we welcome back five artists from the Museum’s free livestreamed and PBS–broadcasted Music at the Museum series, this time to the Park Theater stage: Chatham County Line, Rissi Palmer, Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba, Lakota John, and ¡Tumbao!
Can’t catch it in person? There will also be livestreamed components for access from home!
FREE event but registration is required
Brian Owens & Rissi Palmer take the stage with two back-up singers and a full band to wow the crowd with Soul in My Country. This show features Brian’s soulful take on classic country and soul tunes and Rissi’s passionate band of “southern soul”.
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