Like all performers and teaching musicians, Tricia Spencer’s life looks a lot different this year. While she’d typically be in the middle of festival...
Between 1976 and 1985 fiddler and ethnographer Philip Martin conducted extensive interviews with more than 100 older-generation fiddlers and musicians in his local south-west...
Dom Flemons, quoted frequently in last week’s article by Timothy Jones on rhythm bones and old-time music, here tells his story of discovering bones,...
Traditional Appalachian musicians from Hampshire County, West Virginia and the surrounding area are fortunate to have a great venue where they can share their...
In October of this year, a small group of active traditional musicians established a new Facebook group called "Traditional Music Today." In the few...
Musical communities are interesting studies in human psychology. You find them in just about every population on Earth: groups of people who come together...
Don't miss a Beat!!!
>> Sign up for the Oldtime Central newsletter and get:
Access to the 2019 Oldtime Central Festival Guide PDF
All the latest articles, reviews, videos, and more
Exclusive offers and content only available to subscribers