This post was updated May 22 at 9:43 p.m. Community and tradition inspire the performers of the Old-Time String Band and African American Music Ensemble. Each class of musical performers has shared a ...

In March of 2025, at the annual Big Ears Music Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, I was one of hundreds of festival-goers entranced by a group of up-and-coming musicians exploring a storied American ...

Ketch Secor serves as a classic example of having to leave home to find home. The singer, songwriter and fiddler in old-time string band Old Crow Medicine Show bristled some at American roots music as ...

Duos and special projects dominate our list of favorite traditional acoustic Americana in 2025. Of course I mean Amy Alvey and myself, hosts of The Old Fashioned on WMOT. Just as we love collaborating ...

Modern Americana comes to the Vilar Performing Arts Center Oct. 10 with acoustic guitar, upright bass, fiddle, five-string banjo and the four-part harmonies of The Last Revel. The Minnesota-born band ...

Retro footage from Shannon Street Blues Fest in 2011 and Old Time Music Festival from 2006. Shannon Street Blues Fest #110 Eden Brent (2011) / Old Time Music Festival #106 Slap Happy Old Time String ...

Four UNG students, along with Dr. Esther Morgan-Ellis, professor of music history, attended the fourth annual String Band Summit, where they presented a workshop and papers. Morgan-Ellis said students ...

Singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens has dedicated much of her career to exploring folk and roots music, including old-time, blues, Celtic folk, country, and gospel. In April, ...