The mood and music Appalachian String Band Music Festival has drawn thousands of fans to the mountains of Fayette County in West Virginia. Producers Jennifer Deer and Shea Shackelford take listeners ...
When the Carolina Chocolate Drops, who are playing tonight at Appalachian State University, perform for schoolchildren, they always ask the kids where they think the banjo comes from, and they always ...
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 ...
The Old-Time String Band Ensemble, formerly the Anglo-American Ensemble, performs traditional music of rural America. Old-Time is a genre of music that has roots in very old traditional music cultures ...
They're an all-male acoustic quintet from Minnesota with a clunky name and a roster of hard-plucking string pickers. The guys have a few beards and pairs of sandals between them. But as Pert Near ...