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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The disjointed sounds of instruments being tuned breaks, instantly morphing into a cohesive fluttering of fiddle notes and rhythm-setting guitar strums, all supported by the low beating of a single ...

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 ...