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 ...

Twenty years ago, the old-time string band Carolina Chocolate Drops turned heads and wowed audiences. They were young. They were Black. And with their fiddles and banjos, they launched a movement that ...

Ketch Secor serves as a classic example of having to leave home to find home. The singer, songwriter and fiddler in old-time string band Old Crow Medicine Show bristled some at American roots music as ...

KALISPELL - Not a few folk have accused the Forest Service of fiddling around over the years. If they drop by Hungry Horse on Sunday, they'll finally have their proof. The Fiddlin' Foresters, "the ...

Four UNG students, along with Dr. Esther Morgan-Ellis, professor of music history, attended the fourth annual String Band Summit, where they presented a workshop and papers. Morgan-Ellis said students ...

Fans of old-time music got to kick up their heels a week ahead of the Creative Alliance’s inaugural Say Sister! Festival — which celebrates women who have contributed to the genre — with an opening ...

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, ...