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Artist Spotlight
Rebecca Porter
Born in Guam and raised in Virginia, Rebecca Porter writes unflinchingly personal songs that challenge the boundaries of genre and amplify voices often left out of the country canon.
Her 2023 EP Queen of the Local and 2025 debut album Roll With the Punches have earned national and international recognition, including features on No Depression, The Bluegrass Situation, Adobe & Teardrops, and Lonesome Highway.
Catch Rebecca Porter on her Roll With the Punches Tour throughout Virginia this March, and revisit our Commonwealth Showcase in Harrisonburg featuring Rebecca Porter here.
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World Cafe Features
McKinley Dixon on World Cafe
On McKinley Dixon’s new album, Beloved! Paradise! Jazz?, he moved to Chicago, looking for a blank canvas to generate ideas for this wildly inventive and sonically lush LP that tackles themes of longing. Dixon will talk about why his sound can be difficult to pin down, his love of animation, and how the author Toni Morrison inspired the album’s title, on the next World Cafe.
Lowland Hum Mini Concert on World Cafe
The songs on Lowland Hum’s latest album, From Self with Love, were written during a period of uncertainty for the husband and wife duo of Daniel and Lauren Goans. They’d just become first-time parents when they wrote the album, which touches on themes of pandemic isolation, early parenthood, death, grief, and new life.
David Wax Museum on World Cafe
Tuesday July 25th, 2023 David Wax Museum’s latest album You Must Change Your Life looked like it could be their last when frontman David Wax
