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 ...

The Old Tyme Fiddlers will be the first to play on Sunday afternoon at the Fall Fiddle Festival in Beach Lake. Organizer Steve Jacobi expects other participants will bring bluegrass, Celtic, western ...

During the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a distinctive form of fiddle music emerged in Texas. Known for idiosyncratic timing and phrasing, this style was commonly played with banjos or ...

Howard Marshall visited KBIA studios with his new book Keep It Old-Time: Fiddle Music in Missouri from the 1960s Folk Music Revival to the Present. Howard Marshall is an author, a fiddler and a writer ...

› What: Great Southern Old Time Fiddlers’ Convention› When: Noon-9 p.m., Saturday, March 9› Where: 901 Lindsay, 901 Lindsay St.› Admission: $10 ages 7 and older› Online: oldchattanooga.com Back in the ...

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 ...

I once asked famous bluegrass fiddler Leslie Keith about the difference between a violin and a fiddle. “Well, Jim,’ he replied, “you keep a violin in a beautiful tooled leather case, and you tote a ...

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WEISER, Idaho — An annual competition aimed at fostering and promoting the traditional art of playing the fiddle is in full swing. The National Oldtime Fiddlers' Contest and Festival runs through ...

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 ...

FULSHEAR, TEXAS -- When McKenna Peterson plucks away at her fiddle, you can't help tapping your feet! The 10-year-old from Fulshear, Texas, first started violin lessons when she three-and-a-half years ...