When the fiddle appears in a country song, it is undeniably the loudest and most piercing instrument on the track. It can whine, it can hiss, it can do many things the guitar can and cannot. One might ...

Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd speaks with San Antonio-based fiddle player Belen Escobedo about the old-style barn dance music her grandfather taught her to play. Escobedo says when she plays the old songs ...

Old-time music is alive and well once a month at the Senior Center. "Anybody can join," said Charlie Root, the chairman for District 11 of the Washington State Old Time Fiddlers Association, which ...

Program and biographical notes by Charlie Faurot on container. "Old time banjo and fiddle tunes"; featuring Wade Ward, Fred Cockerham, George Stoneman and Kyle Creed, with instrumental ensemble.

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 ...

On Saturday, the 43rd Annual Minnesota State Old Time Fiddle Championship drew in instrumentalists from across the United States and Canada for a day of fiddlin’ fun. The competition took place at ...

Jeff Cook, the founding Alabama guitarist and fiddle player whose fleet-fingered licks helped define country music’s most successful band, would have turned 76 today. Born on August 27, 1949, in Fort ...

Escobedo says when she plays the old songs nowadays, it makes men cry because they remember how their fathers taught them, too. This Father's Day, listen to old-time Tejano fiddle music by Belen ...