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 ...

This small Virginia town attracts mountain music enthusiasts from around the world. In Southwest Virginia, you’ll find dozens of small mountain towns, but for old-time mountain music, the place to go ...

MARLINTON, W.Va. — There is a place in the Mountain State where one can hear the echoes of old-time music as its sound waves bounce along the mountains. A place so rural, it is said that “not a drop ...

The "high lonesome sound" ballads of Scots-Irish and English immigrants who settled the Great Valley of Virginia and the Appalachians influenced bluegrass and country music. Ballads focused on ...

Ralph Stanley has seen "O Brother Where Art Thou?" 100 times by his count. Tonight will be 101. "It's a good movie," says the 85-year-old banjo icon, whose music is featured in the 2000 film. "I think ...