Noon. Doors open1 p.m. Performance to be announced2 p.m. Dance contest3 p.m. Banjo contest4 p.m. Supper break4:30 p.m. Traditional song contest6 p.m. String band contest7 p.m. Fiddle contest Matt ...

Oroville >> Why fiddle? For some, it’s in the blood. Others grew up with a tune in their head. A few played with grandpa and now can’t think of letting their instruments gather dust. Those folks ...

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 ...

Program and biographical notes by Charlie Faurot on container. "Old time banjo and fiddle tunes"; featuring Wade Ward, Fred Cockerham, George Stoneman and Kyle Creed, with instrumental ensemble.

During the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a distinctive form of fiddle music emerged in Texas. Known for idiosyncratic timing and phrasing, this style was commonly played with banjos or ...

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 ...

ARLINGTON — Guitarist Carl Baird had an idea: Sing the lyrics of “Amazing Grace” to the tune of the Old West standard “Ghost Riders in the Sky.” After a few puzzled looks and some teasing from the ...

Ninety-five years ago today, the legendary fiddler who was the first person to play the Grand Ole Opry died in Tennessee.

"Roll up the rugs," more than a call to let the entertainment begin, was literally the way dance space was created for at-home square dancing. Furniture was moved outdoors or into corners to make ...

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 ...