musician profiles

INTERVIEWS & TUNES

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Tricia Spencer: interview + tunes

Musician Profiles Rachel Krause
Like all performers and teaching musicians, Tricia Spencer’s life looks a lot different this year. While she’d typically be in the...
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Swedish oldtime fiddler Agnes Brogeby: interview + tunes

Musician Profiles Oldtime Central
I'm from Sweden. I grew up in Stockholm, but now live in Gothenburg in the south of Sweden. I've been playing oldtime...
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Clarke Buehling: interview & tunes

Musician Profiles Oldtime Central
My first exposure to old-time music was probably when Hobart Smith came to perform at my high school outside of Chicago....
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festival profiles

NOTES FROM THE FIELD

Online Old Time Banjo Festival Part 2: An interview with the organizers

Festival Profiles Oldtime Central
Back at the beginning of May, we gave you information about the Online Oldtime Banjo Festival, hosted by Brad Kolodner and Cathy...
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Virtual Banjo-Fiddle Frolic: interview with Allie Lee

Festival Profiles Oldtime Central
Frank and Allie Lee have put on their Banjo-Fiddle Frolic for the past two years to great success. This year they've decided...
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Online Old Time Banjo Festival, hosted by Cathy Fink and Brad Kolodner

Festival Profiles Cathy Fink
The First ONLINE OLD TIME BANJO FESTIVAL will take place Saturday and Sunday, May 2-3, 2020. Brought to you by hosts Cathy...
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book reviews

TO BUY OR NOT TO BUY, THAT IS THE QUESTION

Oldtime on the Prairie: a review of Farmhouse Fiddlers

Book Reviews Benjamin Smith
Between 1976 and 1985 fiddler and ethnographer Philip Martin conducted extensive interviews with more than 100 older-generation fiddlers and musicians in...
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Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics: Roots and Branches of Southern Appalachian Dance

Book Reviews Benjamin Smith
A friend once quipped that the name of the main Facebook page for the music we all love should be retitled,...
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Banjo Billy’s “500 Fiddle Tunes: Old-Time Archive”

Book Reviews Emily Elam
When I was nine years old, my fiddle teacher sent me to a workshop from the “Famous Fiddlin’ Banjo Billy Mathews.”...
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oldtime voices

PERSONAL STORIES FROM THE COMMUNITY

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The Bones and Musical Repatriation

Oldtime Voices Dom Flemons
Dom Flemons, quoted frequently in last week’s article by Timothy Jones on rhythm bones and old-time music, here tells his story of...
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The Cabin: tradition & place in Romney, West Virginia

Oldtime Voices Steve Ritz
Traditional Appalachian musicians from Hampshire County, West Virginia and the surrounding area are fortunate to have a great venue where they...
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Ola Belle’s Banjo: A Banjo Story with Cathy Fink

Oldtime Voices Cathy Fink
From the early 1980’s until her passing, my partner Marcy Marxer and I paid many a visit to Ola Belle Reed...
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community profiles

SEE HOW THE NEIGHBORS LIVE

Creating a Safer Space in Traditional Music

Community Profiles Oldtime Central
In October of this year, a small group of active traditional musicians established a new Facebook group called "Traditional Music Today." In...
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Old-Time on the Danube: Why We Play

Community Profiles Richard Osban
Musical communities are interesting studies in human psychology. You find them in just about every population on Earth: groups of people who come together...
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Keeping Old Time

Community Profiles John Crutchfield
If in the last ten years your travels have brought you through Asheville, North Carolina, you will have noticed something odd:...
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