LOWELL — Boarding House Park will be the site of many jam sessions throughout the day Saturday as the Lowell Summer Music Series’ Banjo & Fiddle Contest returns for the 44th year. The free event ...

LOWELL — Folding chairs clogged the halls of Lowell High School Saturday. The sound of string instruments bounced off blue lockers. Toes tapped. Knees bounced. Heads bobbed. Players of all ages and ...

When my longtime friend, Fiddlin’ Ted Fenstermacher, from Macungie, called me to play a banjo-fiddle gig with him, I readily agreed. There’s something about the sound of just an acoustic banjo and ...

A party by the Inner Harbor this weekend celebrates Charm City’s long tradition of tapping a foot to the fiddle and nodding in agreement with the banjo. The Baltimore Old Time Music Festival on Friday ...

Yes. In the hills west of Los Angeles — not all that far from the rock ‘n’ roll glam of Sunset Boulevard, and even closer to the home base of the Guitar Center — the fiddle is alive and well. So is ...

Folk singer Willi Carlisle plays banjo, fiddle and guitar at the Mile of Music festival. Folk singer-songwriter Willi Carlisle performs live at the 2024 Mile of Music festival. He rotates playing the ...

MARLINTON, W.Va. — The Hammons Family is a group that brought a deep tradition of American roots music to West Virginia more than 150 years ago. Now members of the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame, ...

Stuart Duncan and Noam Pikelny describe their music as "genre-proof," which is a lot easier to say than "innovative bluegrass/old-time/blues/folk/swing/jazz ...

Crime doesn’t pay, the old saying goes. That’s especially true for thieves trying to sell the goods back to the person they were stolen from. Local fiddle legend Alfie Myhre has been reunited with his ...

Fiddle & Banjo, Karrnnel Sawitsky and Daniel Koulack's duo project, treads some very well worn traditional territory, but its charm lies in the combination of fiddle tunes from Canada with those of ...