DelFest, the annual event hosted by Del McCoury, is often described as a bluegrass festival, even though only a minority of the acts are traditional bluegrass bands. Many a casual observer assumes ...
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I drove through the Virginia towns that created Appalachian music—here’s what I saw and heard
The songs created in southwestern Virginia spawned bluegrass and country, and they still live on in these rolling hills.
MERIDIAN, Miss. — For a decade, Meridianite Daniel Wile had an unusual hobby: writing a book about a luthier. A luthier is a person who builds and repairs stringed instruments. Wile’s book is about a ...
The loss in Aug. 2007 of the famed transplanted NH resident, Irish singer/songwriter and national folk hero of the Emerald Isle at 74, Tommy Makem, alerted me recently to a news photo of Tommy with ...
MOBILE, Alabama-- With his flowing white beard, cowboy boots, and down-home humor, Eldon Bryson, 82, plies his trade with easy grace at the Fiddle Shop. “I’m used to stuff being piled up,” he says on ...
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