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 ...

BAKER CITY — As guitars tune up on stage, Denny Langford takes a moment, in the shade, to reflect on the decades of music provided by the Blue Mountain Old Time Fiddlers. The group began in 1968 as ...

Kerry Varble is a three-time grand champion of the Ohio State Old Time Fiddlers Contest in Nelsonville. She'll be back competing among friends for the 2024 title. As the sun set on a horse farm in ...

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.

Sure, the Mount Airy Bluegrass and Old-Time Fiddlers Convention provides an occasion for musicians and fans to assemble for a good time, but one longtime observer views the event in a loftier way. "I ...

Long before downloadable MP3s, when music files consisted of wax-covered tubes played on a hand-cranked Victrola that only the wealthy could afford, people relied on live music exclusively for ...