BELMONT —You can credit the Great Lakes Music Camp for spawning the Round Creek String Band. The annual lakeshore gathering of musicians for instruction in acoustic delights brought together the group ...

With a chorus of quick fiddles and plucky guitars, Old Crow Medicine Show came out with a country bang. They opened with “Tell It To Me,” a piece with lyrics (sang with a twang, of course) like ...

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — When Old Crow Medicine Show, the nation’s foremost old-time string band, joined the roster of a major label last year, its frontman, Ketch Secor, brought a 78 rpm record of the Fisk ...

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 ...

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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Just in time for the big recession, Jawbone Railroad is reviving the soundtrack of the Great ...

When the movers and shakers behind Wheatland, the granddaddy of Michigan music festivals, stage their first “Winter Wheat” benefit show since 2020 on Saturday, they’ll showcase bands from across the ...

Nightfall, Chattanooga’s long-lived free summertime music series being presented virtually this season, will present a night of old-time and string music Friday starting at 7 p.m. with local musicians ...

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 ...

ELLISVILLE — Hickory Ridge Concerts returns to the historic Ellisville Opera House Saturday, July 16, 7 p.m. when host Chris Vallillo welcomes special guests, Sangamo Town. Sangamo Town hails from ...