This post was updated May 22 at 9:43 p.m. Community and tradition inspire the performers of the Old-Time String Band and African American Music Ensemble. Each class of musical performers has shared a ...

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 ...

Gore Place hosts the Ruth and Ben String Band for an evening of old time music in its historic Carriage House.

With a chorus of quick fiddles and plucky guitars, Old Crow Medicine Show came out with a country bang. They opened with “Tell It To Me,” a piece with lyrics (sang with a twang, of course) like ...

AMHERST — The Amherst Town Library invites the public to “A Night of Old-Time String Music and Song” on Wednesday, July 15, at 7 p.m. In this third program of the adult summer series called Minds Wide ...

Singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens has dedicated much of her career to exploring folk and roots music, including old-time, blues, Celtic folk, country, and gospel. In April, ...

Retro footage from Shannon Street Blues Fest in 2011 and Old Time Music Festival from 2006. Shannon Street Blues Fest #110 Eden Brent (2011) / Old Time Music Festival #106 Slap Happy Old Time String ...

Old Crow Medicine Show bassist Morgan Jahnig was a little awestruck by the architecture of The Egg the last time the two-time Grammy-winning string band performed in upstate New York. “I remember it ...

On Saturday, Oct. 16 from 6 to 8 p.m. the Roanoke County Parks, Recreation & Tourism Department will sponsor an evening of old time string music. The event will be held at the Brambleton Center, ...

When Helena viola player Michael Willing and guitarist-singer Adam Nordell traveled to Sidney to perform some old-time string music, they didn’t expect anybody to show up. But the place was packed, ...