I really miss vinyl. And it’s not just the warmer sound and blah blah blah. It’s the marriage of music with visual arts—the flipping through the records (not scrolling or searching) to decide what you ...
DULUTH — Aaron Wilcox started to prepare for the 2022 Minnesota State Old Time Fiddle Championship immediately after last year's competition. "I come away from the contest with so many ideas for new ...
DULUTH — Aaron Wilcox started to prepare for the 2022 Minnesota State Old Time Fiddle Championship immediately after last year's competition. "I come away from the contest with so many ideas for new ...
Forty-six years ago today, one of Nashville's most prolific fiddle players and a member of the original A-Team died.
“A sweet stereo sound bath of fiddle tunes spiced with bluegrass, cajun, and honky tonk, and country classics” was once again heard at the Appalachian String Band Music Festival. One of many jams at ...
Davy Crockett was a larger-than-life frontiersman, folk hero, U.S. congressman from Tennessee and a doomed Alamo defender who became an American icon in a 1950s television show and two films about the ...
One night, ten years ago, I was racing across Portland, Oregon, hoping to see the Foghorn Stringband, an old-time group that had a weekly residence at a pub called Moon and Sixpence. I wasn’t ...
PORT TOWNSEND — Right about now, the fort is fully warmed up. Over the past week, Fort Worden State Park has been the setting for Voice Works, an immersion workshop-concert-dance camp celebrating ...
Before a show, the members of Whitewater Ramble enjoy gathering in their warm-up room in a circle and playing 200 year-old fiddle tunes. Then they leave them there. Whitewater Ramble of Fort Collins ...
The fiddle accompanied Lewis & Clark across the West. Fur trappers danced to it. Fiddle music followed the Métís as they sought a safe place south of the border, and they shared it with the Blackfeet.
The Ten Pound Fiddle, a folk music organization in Lansing, Michigan, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The organization's longevity is attributed to its dedicated volunteers, strong financial ...
Bud Larsen built his first Hardanger fiddle when he was in the seventh grade. Now 80 years old, he’s built more than 40 of the instruments and repaired well over 100. He learned the craft from Gunnar ...