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.

"I felt, in writing this piece, that there was an openness, or a kind of a renewed freshness, I had working with music materials, because I was working in a new form. It took out all the cobwebs in ...

Stuart Duncan and Noam Pikelny describe their music as "genre-proof," which is a lot easier to say than "innovative bluegrass/old-time/blues/folk/swing/jazz ...

When my longtime friend, Fiddlin’ Ted Fenstermacher, from Macungie, called me to play a banjo-fiddle gig with him, I readily agreed. There’s something about the sound of just an acoustic banjo and ...

On hearing George Jackson play a fiddle tune from his new record Hair & Hide, you might think he’d lived in Appalachia all his life. In fact, the New Zealand-born fiddler and composer made his way to ...

LOWELL — Soaking humidity and a brief cloudburst failed to dampen the enthusiasm Saturday afternoon for the 36th annual Banjo and Fiddle Contest, sponsored by the Lowell National Historic Park. More ...

A party by the Inner Harbor this weekend celebrates Charm City’s long tradition of tapping a foot to the fiddle and nodding in agreement with the banjo. The Baltimore Old Time Music Festival on Friday ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Banjo player and fiddler Jake Blount likes to mess with his audiences: He’ll swap the ...

Recorded in: Asheville (N.C.), Ararat (N.C.), North Carolina, Farmington (Ark.), Arkansas, Crowley (La.), Louisiana, Iuka (Miss.), Meridian (Miss.), Mississippi ...