#Bailey Biggers

[karenpulferfocht]

Folk Alliance International Conference 2023 Highlights

MEMPHIS WAS THE FIRST “CITY OF HONOR”

https://folk.org/announcing-our-first-city-of-honor-memphis-tennessee/

By Michael Sangiacomo

KANSAS CITY, MO — The folk music old guard that dominated the Folk Alliance International conferences for the past 35 years has passed the guitar to a new generation that is younger, energized, and mostly female and non-white.

And the kids are all right.

In the BC years (before covid), the annual five-day conference that draws more than 1,000 musicians from around the world was largely the province of aging performers and music lovers.

This year, the beat has changed. Most of the performers were young, female, and non-white lending a whole new energy to the event that was held this past weekend in Kansas City. The LGBTQI community was also well-represented.

Memphis was everywhere, chosen as the “First City of Honor” with Memphis-oriented workshops, speakers, and a slew of talented performers including Amy LaVere, Bailey Biggers, Talibah Safiya, Yella P of Memphisissippi Sound, violinist Alice Hasen and the brilliant Aquarian Blood.

Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, poet, and actor Valerie June astounded with her keynote speech that said love and hope can defeat hate and fear.

As she spoke about the global crisis, the “technological hacking of the human mind and body” and nuclear war, she abruptly stopped and flashed her trademark smile. She walked to center stage, picked up a banjo, and played a delicate version of “What A Wonderful World” in defiance of the doomsayers.

Wherever she walked she was treated like royalty. Women and children rushed up and hugged her.

She now lives in Brooklyn but said she would always consider Memphis her home.

Like the rest of us, June went from concert to concert to hear the young artists.

The annual gathering is designed to allow music critics, agents, disc jockeys, and concert and festival bookers to get up close and personal with new artists and discover new talent.

It’s also a chance for singers and musicians to strut their stuff in the smaller, intimate venues of the Westin Hotel and gather new fans. There are organized workshops and concerts during the day and evening, though much of the action started at 10:30 p.m. and continued almost to daybreak in hundreds of hotel rooms converted into makeshift music spots. Sometimes a performer played for just one or two people, a memorable experience.

There were a few older performers here, like Tom Paxton and Janis Ian, who acted in more of a non-performing, advisory capacity. Ian received a well-deserved lifetime achievement award. Paxton said he was just there to be inspired by the young people.

Instead of the usual performances by folk icons like Livingston Taylor, John McCutcheon and Eliza Gilkyson, visitors chose between blues singers from Memphis, storytellers from Ireland, brash bands from Australia, and new Americana voices from everywhere,

The toughest challenge is choosing who to see since every concert choice means missing hundreds of other mini-concerts going on elsewhere.

In one, Josh White Jr. seemed a little baffled when his co-performer, 92-year-old jazz genius, composer, and orchestra conductor David Amram asked him to play “House of the Rising Sun” a second time. But he smiled and acquiesced.

Amram impulsively invited young musicians he just met hours earlier to join them. Violinist Rahel-Liis Aasrand of Estonia and percussionist Natalia Miranda from Guatemala nervously joined Amram and White in an impromptu jazz number, as if they had played together for years.

Amy Lavere has a voice much larger than her lithe frame which was dwarfed by the stand-up bass she played. Her voice is at once sweet and powerful and her accompanying guitarist and violinist could not have been better.

Alice Hasen and showed just how versatile the violin could be, switching gears from classical to folk to almost hip-hop.

There was music around every corner. In one room, Brit Shane Hennessey played an instrumental tribute to Chet Atkins. In another, the laid-back Aquarian Blood’s J.B. Horrell played the guitar upright between his knees while his wife, Laurel, sang along.

And the talent goes on and on, stretching out through the halls and into the early morning hours as it expands the definition of folk music far, far beyond the notion of a guy with a guitar.

For more information on the Folk Alliance and how to attend next year’s conference, go to www.folk.org.

#Folk Alliance International First City of Honor: Memphis #Tennessee #Folk Alliance International 2023 #Folk Music #Music Industry #Memphis Music #Amy LeVere #Will Sexton #Mark Edgar Stuart #Alice Hasen #Folk Music Industry #Music Business #Music Conference #Handmade Moments #Anna Moss #Valerie June #Actor and Musician Josh White Jr. #92-year-old DAVID AMRAN #Bailey Biggers #Yella P of Memphisissippi Sound #LGBTQI community Folk Music #Violinist Rahel-Liis Aasrand of Estonia #Natalia Miranda from Guatemala

[school-zones]

Imogen: “Power is very tempting…”

Laudna: “Maybe it’s our destiny to harness it.”

Imogen: “Maybe it’s our destiny to fight it.”

I would LOVE to see this sentiment get flipped later on in the campaign. Right now we see Laudna seriously questioning whether or not to give in to Delilah’s power and Imogen being the voice of reason. But as Imogen becomes even more powerful, tables could easily turn and she could want to give in. Maybe she even questions turning on her friends? Can Laudna survive that betrayal?

And maybe Laudna is the one who has to convince Imogen to fight it this time. Maybe it’s juicy and emotional. Maybe it’s peak conflict, just like Marisha likes. Maybe Laudna reminds Imogen about their conversation in the bread isle. Maybe she begs Imogen not to sever their tether. Maybe Laudna pleads with Imogen to fight power’s temptation—that it’s her destiny to fight it.

And maybe, probably, BAFTA award-winning Laura Bailey will break our hearts.

#bells hells #critical role #imogen #laudna #imodna #laura bailey #marisha ray #imogen temult #cr campaign 3 #critters #yes im aware of what happened before the solstice im talking bigger stakes here lol

[meganwasbored]

Remember when Bree Campbell ran away from a school trip in a foreign country, broke multiple laws, entered a portal to another universe that she literally just found out existed, and fought in a war she would have had nothing to do with if she minded her freaking business, all for a boy she wasn’t even dating yet

#if you understand this post we are now best friends #most underrated series ever #deserves a bigger fandom #the land of stories #bree campbell #conner bailey

[kaidanalenkosprmanager]

THE BEST OF PRIORITY: THE CITADEL (PART 1)

Featuring: Cmdr. Sophie Shepard, Lt. James Vega, EDI, and Thane Krios With: Flight Lt. Jeff "Joker" Moreau, Councilor Rannadril Bibsos Tembin Lesti Bensin Valern, Cmdr. Armando-Owen Bailey, and Kai Leng Kalahira, this one's heart is pure, but beset by wickedness and contention. Guide this one to where the traveler never tires, the lover never leaves, the hungry never starve. Guide this one, Kalahira, and she will be a companion to you as she was to me. Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition (2021)

#mira makes gifs ✨ #sophie shepard #james vega #EDI #thane krios #jeff joker moreau #mass effect #mass effect 3 #me3 #mass effect legendary edition #dailygaming #priority citadel is one of my favorite priority missions in the game so it’s a fun one to gif! #i absolutely love how much thane content you get in the front end of the mission since thane is one of my favorites! #and bailey is one of my favorite npcs in the game so i adore that he gets a bit of a spotlight role in a bigger mission too! #but i will say that i do think priority citadel has some.. writing issues? to put it mildly? #i think my biggest problem is that i feel like everything with udina feels like it kinda just comes out of left field #like it feels like there’s VERY little build up for what happens with udina being a cerberus plant #the idea is interesting!! but i wish there was much more build up for it? it’s sort of just- there for me and it just comes at you so fast #like udina had always been sort of portrayed as a kind of shifty/power hungry character (don’t get me wrong) #but the cerberus plot line seemed VERY hastily thrown in and i wish there was a bit more subtle nodding to it throughout earlier missions #and i could write essays about how i wish kai leng was written better #but people who write much more eloquently than i do can put it in much better words than i can what problems there are with his writing #i think he had potential to be a super interesting character if he was introduced earlier and was much less stereotypical in form #also i’m sorry mr. leng but miranda wears the armor better (I SAID IT AND I WONT APOLOGIZE FOR IT) #the fight between kai leng and thane is *chef’s kiss* 👌 tho (i adore the cinematography of the shots as a video editing bitch) #ME3 has very nice fight choreography in some of the cutscenes (especially the ones with kai leng and the phantoms) #thane krios will always be my beloved and in canon he and soph develop a mutual respect over their hand to hand combat skills :) #also i forgot to say joker looking so absolutely done with everything in that first gif is me irl ✨

[imgonnagetkilledbynutstink]

HOMIES I SOMEHOW JUST NOW REALIZED THAT I HAVE THE SAME GLASSES THAT TIM WEARS IN THE 80S I GOT THESE BEFORE I EVEN STARTED THE SHOW

#his are a bit bigger then mine but they're basically the same #fellow travelers #ft #tim laughlin #jonathan bailey

[ellies-enrichment]

not ready for abby

ready to defend the actor though whoever it may be

#rumors are saying they have someone picked #i hope they dont have social media #the fact laura bailey and the face model for abby got death threats is insane i will defend whoever plays abby w/ my life #abby herself though no shes attracted to owen she has bigger problems yUCK #wHAT IF THEY CAST SOMEONE I LIKE AS OWEN #nooo no bad timeline they wouldnt do that to me

[atinyladybug-art]

When in doubt and art block, make a Miku inspired OC. Presenting her. My most girlypop ever.

I decided to try something different and new with character designing so here we have a character with lots of details but less colours (only having 3) as opposed to my usual less detail characters with more colours (most my designs have a minimum of 5)

Texts below cut:

Dr Tatinanna Bailey

Level 3

Medical Department

Makes, services and maintains prosthetics for amputated personnel

Has a doctorate in engineering and a degree in nursing

Mute and Uses a tablet for communication. Got someone to programme a text-to-speech app with Miku's voicebank.

Inventory:

(Inventory is a tablet, a tablet pen in a shape of a leek, and those modern touchscreen flip-phones with a Miku keychain)

#alt draws #scp #scp foundation #scp ocs #dr tatianna bailey #ref sheet #i need to redraw her in a bigger size it is a little small yea now that im looking at it #either way i love her

[ladybugsimblr]

studio qb, strangerville

#decorating wip #studio qb #purchased a bigger retail lot for q's studio #so much space to fill 😩 #thinking cafe restaurant bookstore and??? #all ideas welcome #gotta look at some of my fave builders #and see if i can copy-paste rooms #do we think bailey will let q hire an assistant? #i can see her sitting in on all interviews smh #he's gonna end up picking lyric or legend LOL #dassit

[pocketgalaxies]

#laura bailey's improv brain is bigger than all of ours combined #1h46m c2e39 #sc #critical role #cr2 #cr lb #jester lavorre #veth brenatto #r: jester x veth

[thecobaltmonk]

LAURA FUCKING BAILEY!?

#much like i know her voice anywhere i know that face as well #laura bailey #She better get a bigger guest star spot next season #tlou #tlou hbo #tlou hbo spoilers

[mexicanfairyy]

The pain of having to watch these two idiots deny their love for a whole season was unbearable.

#kate sharma #kanthony #bridgerton #simone ashley #kathony #the viscount who loved me #anthony bridgerton #tvwlm #anthony x kate #kate x anthony #jonathan bailey #bridgerton fandom #bridgerton netflix #lady bridgerton #viscountess bridgerton #kate bridgerton #kathani sharma #taylor swift #bigger than the whole sky #midnights

[playboybabyxx]

I need this bag now! Anyone wanna spoil me? You won't leave empty-handed ~(Although you will leave feeling empty and satisfied ~)

#Gyaru Glory x #Grace Gossips x #Bailey's getting annoyed by the amount of accessories he needs to walk over to get his money #But the more I make him work for it the more satisfied with life I am. #His fault for not giving me a bigger room to store my goods <3 #He can seethe and cope <3

[blcssom]

closed starter for @lvciddreamt based on this ! ( open to m/f/nb )

"and here i thought your mom was pulling one over on me when she said you'd come home for the holidays." which, to be fair, their mother always thinks they're coming home for the holidays and, in reality, their visits have been few and far between. "thought you'd outgrown us."

#she's v much the girl who everyone saw getting out and doing something bigger and better but !! she choked !! :' ) #which she's fine with except seeing them now is really rubbing salt in the mostly healed wound #( int/ ember bailey. ) #lvciddreamt #( 2/2 )

[marchingfishes]

just two young men makin’ out in-between dangerous altercations for the battle of Good vs Evil.

#xiaolin showdown #jack spicer #clay bailey #clayjack #clack #thad art #jack's villain mustache supremacy #bigger has more details

[kittyhazelnut]

me: oh yeah I can totally get a new kitten

me: my current cat must get lonely and bored when I'm not around and he would love a friend

me: when I got him at 13 years old he was coming from a lady who has 15 cats so clearly he likes other cats

me: and he's old as fuck and nice as fuck so even if they didn't get along it would be fine

me: if he can coexist with my stupid little pupper he can absolutely coexist with a little kitten!

my cat, 45 seconds after meeting the new kitten: HISSSSS

#BAILEY WHAT THE FUCK #they're in separate rooms rn but i brought Flynn to meet Bailey and it was okay-ish in the hall between rooms #Flynn was terrified when Bailey got too close but as soon as i put him in his room he wanted to come back #so i thought it would be fine especially because they went nose-to-nose w the gate between them and it was fine #bailey hasn't seemed to give any fucks about him tbh #im thinking next time ill bring bailey into flynn's room? #or put them both in the hall again? #it might be a territorial thing bc my room is pretty much exclusively me and bailey (w very rare quick supervised dog visits) #but also bailey doesn't like to go places so if i put him in another room he'll probably just go back to my room #which makes it really hard to introduce him to this kitten #maybe its because this is the only animal he's ever been bigger than lmao

[soopysoap]

can't stop listening to the new beatles song so here r some "now and then i miss you / now and then i want you to be there for me" duos

#bailey & micah georgia & camilla audrey & ana alex & dot #they all make me so sad AUGH #esp georgia & camilla. twins best friends soulmates who stopped seeing eye to eye bc one had a bigger loyalty to how she's perceived than #her own sister #feeling like shes the only person in the world who sees u for u but still feeling SO insanely alone in the world #augh. AND ALEX AND DOTTTT #especially bc dot is dead!!! and alex has been unable to form a real meaningful relationship since!!!!!! #sobs #ocs