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...
Swedish oldtime fiddler Agnes Brogeby: interview + tunes
I'm from Sweden. I grew up in Stockholm, but now live in Gothenburg in the south of Sweden. I've been playing oldtime for about ten years, but got introduced to it before I was...
Jimmy Triplett & Howard Rains – Tunes from Clifftop 2019
"The first is a tune call Nancy Ann. I learned it from Mose Coffman on a visit back in 1994. He knew the tune from an older fiddler named Glen Gillespie, but never learned...
Jane Rothfield
My journey as a musician has been a long one, since I started playing violin when I was about 6 years old! My parents always had music going on in the house-my mom played...
Tricia Spencer: interview + tunes
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 season and travelling to oldtime camps around the country to...
George Jackson – interview + tunes
I grew up about as far away geographically from the regions where old-time music originated as you could imagine, but American culture was all around me in my home country of New Zealand, in...
Matt Turino
Matt Turino is a great oldtime fiddle player who grew up in Urbana, Illinois. The son of a revivalist oldtime banjo player and ethnomusicologist, Thomas Turino, Matt had oldtime and contradances in his life...
John Crutchfield
So in Old-Time pretty much everyone has a day job. Mine is being a writer— plays, mostly, although I write poems and stories as well, and I have occasionally even committed journalism. Oh, and...
David Scrivner: interview + tunes
I began playing mandolin when I was six. My dad and his brothers had formed a bluegrass band when they were in high school in Ava, Missouri, in the 1950s. My dad had evidently played...