A four-day festival is being held in tribute to the centennial of the historic 1925 OKeh recording session in Asheville.

SEVIER COUNTY, Tenn. — Music is a language that knows no barriers. It carries with it memories, culture and history. Southern Appalachian music has been telling the story of the people in East ...

The Northern Appalachian Folk Festival will return to downtown Indiana Thursday through Saturday with live music, vendors, workshops, children’s activities and storytelling and fiddle contests. On ...

Any Southern native, or transplant for that matter, has a general idea of what a fiddle is. You've no doubt heard your mama or your neighbor remark that they're feeling "fit as a fiddle." Zenas ...

Malcolm Smith’s first exposure to old-time mountain music was at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield. It was dance music, it was “hypnotic” and it ultimately became a lifelong love for Smith. Smith ...

The Mountain Music School at Mountain Empire Community College is dedicated to preserving the traditional sounds of Southwest Virginia by passing them down to younger generations. The week-long ...

Old timey Appalachian music caught the ears of some new fans on Sunday afternoon, as a small group of musicians gathered for three hours in the corner of Spruce Coffee to play their fiddles, banjos, ...

When Donna the Buffalo performs this Saturday, the Wheeler Opera House crowd will most likely be up and dancing to the sextet’s music, a rhythmic sound propelled by the beats of reggae, country and ...

Appalachian String Band Music Festival held at Camp Washington Carver in Clifftop. The festival is a five-day mountaintop gathering of musicians and friends with contests, concerts, workshops, square ...

Growing up in inner city Atlanta, sisters Chloe Smith and Leah Song didn’t consider their upbringing particularly unusual. They were a working class family. Their mother was a day laborer for Delta ...

4:30 p.m., Next Page Books and Nosh, 409 Main St., Frisco. Robert Schmidt, Steve May and Josh Stock of The Grinz will be playing live music. 9:30 p.m., Snake River Saloon, 23074 U.S. Highway 6, ...

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 ...