Christopher Suen
I met Chris through the kind of serendipity + hospitality that has characterized most all of my experience in the oldtime community. Chris was in Germany touring with The Fugitives, a band he's played...
Interview with Allison de Groot
Can you tell me about your path to oldtime?
"The first time I heard clawhammer banjo was Leonard Podolack playing on an album by The Duhks, a band from my hometown of Winnipeg, Canada. I’ll never...
Iowa fiddler Alan Murphy
Alan Murphy is one of the greats of Midwest fiddling and one who deserves to be known well beyond the region.
Born in Sibley, Iowa in 1945 and raised in Iowa City, Murphy came from...
Mark C. Campbell: Growing up on oldtime in the Shenandoah Valley
Co-authored by Mark C. Campbell & Rachel Krause
Mark C. Campbell is an oldtime musician based in Richmond, Virginia. Mark grew up in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, where folk music and Shape Note hymns...
Cameron Knowler: Melodic Guitar in Oldtime Music
Although oldtime guitar is arguably one of the most underrated and overlooked instruments in the tradition, Cameron Knowler is quick to point out that strong, engaging back-up is crucial to the “nutrition” of any...
Kevin Fore of Surry County, NC and Galax, VA (Carroll County)
If you want to hear a living master of the different styles of clawhammer banjo that emerged from the Round Peak community, listen to Kevin Fore.
But Kevin doesn't just play banjos: he makes them....
In Remembrance of Jon Bekoff (1959-2015)
This personal remembrance of Jon Bekoff was written by his friend Ms. Moonshine on the occasion of his death five years ago today and originally published on the blog Old Time Party. At her...
Rachel Eddy + Roger Netherton
Here's a video I've been dying to get out there. Rachel and Roger very graciously took time at this year's Clifftop to talk about how they got into playing oldtime. Rachel also shared her...
Bruce Molsky: an interview
When I heard that Bruce Molsky was going to be playing with Molsky's Mountain Drifters at the 2019 Fire in the Mountain in rural Wales – a wonderful festival I've visited for several years...