I visited the birthplace of country music – and it’s not where you would have guessed - Linking a constellation of storied ...

This small Virginia town attracts mountain music enthusiasts from around the world. In Southwest Virginia, you’ll find dozens of small mountain towns, but for old-time mountain music, the place to go ...

charleston – Bluegrass and old-time mountain music will fill the air at the WV Culture Center for two days, Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, sponsored by FOOTMAD – Friends of Old-Time Music and Dance. Billed as ...

Rhiannon Giddens is down at the river, carrying a flame of heritage, and she’s inviting anyone who wants to join her to come down and light their own wicks. Rivers are traditionally sites of salvation ...

The Faulkner Chamber Music Festival continues with two free performances in the Center for Humanities and Arts Theater at the University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College, 3000 W. Scenic Drive, ...

When Joseph Decosimo was 16, his dad drove him from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Warren Wilson College’s famed Swannanoa Gathering and dropped him off. The annual folk music and arts conference wasn’t ...

LOWELL — Dozens gathered in and around the Merrimack Repertory Theatre Saturday for the Lowell Summer Music Series’ 44th annual Banjo & Fiddle Contest. The contest brought musicians from all over the ...

In March of 2025, at the annual Big Ears Music Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, I was one of hundreds of festival-goers entranced by a group of up-and-coming musicians exploring a storied American ...

Joel Martin, Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, Wash. Oct. 1—MOSES LAKE — Old-time music is alive and well once a month at the Moses Lake Senior Center. "Anybody can join," said Charlie Root, the ...

CHARLESTON — Bluegrass and old-time mountain music will fill the air at the WV Culture Center for two days — Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 — sponsored by FOOTMAD (Friends of Old-Time Music and Dance). Billed as ...