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

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 ...

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 ...

This is part of a series from Ilene Dube of The Artful Blogger. Howell Living History Farm in Hopewell, N.J., bills itself as a time machine to the turn of the 20th century, when farms were bordered ...

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.