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 ...

Members have come and gone over the years as Old Crow morphed from punky upstarts to middle-aged country music statesmen. The ...

To the casual listener, old-time and bluegrass might be hard to tell apart. Both genres of music predominantly feature ...

The first annual Winthrop Folk & Roots Festival will take center stage at the Winthrop Barn on Oct. 24-25, filling the venue ...

In 1963, when the folk-music trend made a young Greg Deering want to learn to play the banjo, his mother said no. But he was obsessed, desperate to create the sounds he had heard on a Kingston Trio ...

LOWELL — Boarding House Park will be the site of many jam sessions throughout the day Saturday as the Lowell Summer Music Series’ Banjo & Fiddle Contest returns for the 44th year. The free event ...

RACINE — Award-winning filmmaker Dan Ollman has created documentaries with music themes before. He usually covers music with a story behind it. So when James “Jim” McVeigh approached him about ...

WILLIS — For just about all of her life, Rhoda Kemp has made beautiful music pour out of her banjo. But on a chilly day in March, the only sound her banjo made was the repetitive raspy scrape of ...

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 ...

Chelsea Burton is a reporter with the Community News Service, part of the University of Vermont’s Reporting & Documentary Storytelling program. In the home of Rik Palieri, a country-roots and folk ...

Nora Brown, who is making a name for herself at just 20 years old, is coming to the Narrows Center for the Arts in Fall River ...