It was never the perfectly polished corporate music store, where everything shined bright. Indeed, it was never intended to be that kind of music store. Front Porch Music in downtown Bakersfield was, ...

On the afternoon of Sunday, Sept. 22, the Longfellow neighborhood will hold its ninth annual Front Porch Music Festival, a neighborly celebration of music-making. From 2 to 5:30 p.m., performers of ...

Tucked away down the winding rural roads of NC, there's an old country store not far from Raleigh, where you can sit in a rocking chair on the front porch listening to guitars and stories on a balmy ...