Clarke Buehling: interview & tunes
My first exposure to old-time music was probably when Hobart Smith came to perform at my high school outside of Chicago. Within a few weeks, I had gone down to The Old Town folk school...
Ryland Burhans
Ry grew up in Athens, Ohio. While raised around heaps of old-time, he spent most of his teenage years attempting to escape the music of his parents, experimenting with a wide range of instruments...
Caitlin Hearn
Caitlin Hearn is a fiddle player who currently lives in Regensburg, Germany, where she is an English teacher. She got her musical feet wet at age 9, when she began studying classical violin in...
Tommy Jarrell (1901-1985) – fiddler & banjo player from Surry County, North Carolina
I'm one of the many oldtime musicians out there who got truly infected with a love for clawhammer banjo and oldtime fiddle as a result of the classic recordings of Tommy Jarrell and Fred...
Dante Portella and Megan O’Neill
Megan O'Neill
Megan grew up playing classical violin, from 4th grade through high school, and, after putting her violin down for over a decade, she picked it up again to learn to play the fiddle....
Hilarie Burhans
Hi! I’m Hilarie Burhans.
After a childhood spent all over the world, my family moved to Athens, in the Appalachian part of Ohio, when I was in 10thgrade. I guess I was eager to put...
Trish Kilby Fore – Interview and CD review
Trish Kilby Fore grew up surrounded by music in her hometown of Lansing in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Her new CD Clawhammer Banjo: Blue Ridge Style features her very rhythmic, “up...
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...
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...
Dorion de Gobeo – interview and tune
My name is Dorion de Gobeo. I am Canadian, born in Manitoba and raised in the mountains of British Columbia. At the age of 10 I started playing classical violin but I gave up...