Up on stage at New York's annual River to River summer music festival, a four-piece string band is tearing through the song "Sourwood Mountain." The fiddle wails, the banjo frails and a few members of ...

It’s safe to say the Erin Feis festival hasn’t seen a musical act quite like We Banjo 3, the quartet from Galway, Ireland, composed of banjos and fiddles. The group plays a style that fuses American ...

At first glance, Nitrograss might appear to be just another Asheville, N.C.-based bluegrass ensemble, albeit one with an incredibly talented banjo player. Charles Wood, the banjo player in question, ...

Carson Moore, Wayne Henderson Scholarship recipient. Photo courtesy of PacJAM. Press release from PacJAM: PacJAM (Pacolet Junior Appalachian Musicians) is entering its 5th year of helping to keep ...

Rhiannon Giddens is down at the river, carrying a flame of heritage, and she’s inviting anyone who wants to join her to come down and light their own wicks. Rivers are traditionally sites of salvation ...

HARTVILLE Heading down the road to Quail Hollow Park around 6:15 on a Thursday night a string of five cars all turned left into the same parking lot. About half the people in the full lot, all of them ...

Daxson Lewis (Class of 2016) said that traditional music was heard playing at nearly any occasion or location, thanks to his paternal grandparents. Eventually, Lewis landed on his musical instrument ...

“We believe that tradition is not just a static body of knowledge. It’s the personal bond between generations of practitioners that allows culture to be transmitted and made meaningful in the present.