Old-time music is rooted in Appalachia, and an upcoming event series celebrates women's contributions to the tradition. The old-time genre developed mainly in the southern mountains and is commonly played on instruments such as the fiddle, banjo and guitar ...

This weekend, the mountains of southwestern Virginia are filled with the sweet, cacophonous sound of fiddles. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) MA: It is the Old Fiddler's Convention, which draws hundreds of mostly amateur musicians and thousands of bluegrass and old ...

Peter Rowan reflects on the rise and fall of Old & In the Way ahead of his performance with Sam Grisman Project at Suwannee Spring Reunion.

Bluegrass music is one of, if not the oldest genre of music in the United States. Given its longevity it has graced every facet of the music industry in some way, shape, or form; whether it be incidentally or not. That being so, most genres of music have ...