American Songwriter

62 Years Ago Today, We Lost One Half of the Brother Duo Behind Old-Time Standards Recorded by Merle Haggard and Doc Watson

Sixty-two years ago today, the world bid farewell to a songwriter and former Grand Ole Opry star who shaped country music ...
The Boston Globe

Rhode Island’s robust old-time music scene comes alive at local jams

PROVIDENCE — Lenard Lemieux gently rocked his head from side to side, his bow flying across his fiddle as he played the first few bars of an old-time tune. Within a few beats, three banjos, two ...
Yahoo

Walkertown musician keeps old-time music alive

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Riley Baugus, a Walkertown native, grew up listening to blues and classic country musicians. At the age of 10, he started playing ...
The New York Times

In the Age of the Algorithm, Roots Music Is Rising

Streaming services are helping revive America’s most old-fashioned, undigital genre. Charley Crockett, a rising star in the roots-music field, performing in Nashville, Ind., in May.Credit...Kristine ...
The Herald-Dispatch

Huntington Old-Time Dance and Music’s fall square dance series begins Saturday

HUNTINGTON — With live, music-fueled square dances now popular again around the country with young people and folks of all ages, the Huntington Old-Time Dance and Music organization is about to ...
WUNC

Virginia's Old Fiddler's Convention welcomes musicians and fans in its 89th year

This weekend, the mountains of southwestern Virginia are filled with the sweet, cacophonous sound of fiddles. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) MA: It is the Old Fiddler's Convention, which draws hundreds of ...
The Baltimore Sun

Baltimore Old Time Music Festival celebrates city’s long history of fiddle and banjo

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 ...