There's no easy way to forge a path through the beautiful sprawl that is Americanafest. But here, our journalist Craig Havighurst scans the newcomers and the veterans alike to assemble a day-by-day guide to some of the most compelling acts among this year's offerings.
ON DEMAND
VIDEO
Watch Katie Pruitt perform songs from her upcoming record Fools for the Fleeting live at the WMOT Studio in East Nashville.
NPR TOP STORIES
-
Leading Palestinian writer Raja Shehadeh has documented Israel's occupation of the West Bank since day one. Fearing the occupation might consume his archive, he secretly moved it to Scotland -
The cargo plane crash in Miami is raising concerns about the safety culture at 21 Air, one of the carriers that fly for Amazon. Former pilots were sounding alarms even before Sunday's accident. -
As an Anthropic resignation and OpenAI agents' hack on Hugging Face capture public attention, some researchers worry the industry is racing too fast to develop powerful AI while safety measures lag. -
The assassination of far right activist Charlie Kirk opened the floodgates of neighbor-on-neighbor doxing. A year later, the damage to political discourse in the U.S. remains.
Sign up for our weekly newsletter, featuring music news, contests and our concert calendar.
WMOT's video archive is now on YouTube. Click here to subscribe.
Click here to view the latest ticket giveaways.