Nathan Bontrager – Oldtime Cello & Fiddle
When I moved to New Haven, CT in the fall of 2009 I was at the end of a number of years of studying classical cello. Those valuable years taught me not only technique and...
Mike Burns: interview + tunes
I grew up north of Charleston, West Virginia in the small community of Mink Shoals, located on the Elk River. Most of my time was spent running around the woods or fishing and swimming in...
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...
Cameron DeWhitt – interview & tunes
Cameron DeWhitt is a clawhammer banjoist and Old Time musician living in Portland, Oregon. He hosts the weekly podcast Get Up in the Cool: Old Time Music with Cameron DeWhitt and Friends, which features...
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...
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...
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...
Graham Dezarn
I grew up from the Northern Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, where I still live. My parents spent a lot of time at the Bluemont contradances and my dad was a fiddle player, so I...
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...
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...