Long before the rise of the radio and the advent of the record player, the hills of southwestern Pennsylvania rang with the music of fiddle and fife, with old melodies first brought to the New World ...

The annual Gardner Winter Music Festival returned to South Middle School in Morgantown, continuing a tradition that dates back more than four decades. Organizers said the event ...

West Virginia old time fiddler Ralph Roberts at the Appalachian String Festival in Clifftop, West Virginia, in 2004. Roberts’ repertoire is full of tunes whose origins trace the to Scots and Scots ...

Appalachian Festival Celebrates 55 Years of Tradition returns to New Richmond, Ohio. Cincinnati’s Beloved Mother’s Day Weekend Even. Festival hours are Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., and Sunday, ...

When she takes the stage today at Capitol Square, Helen White will bear a gift for Queen Elizabeth II that she plans to deliver with a bow. And a fiddle. White, a musician and educator from the ...

Warren and Judy Waldron love performing traditional Appalachian folk music. The Oxford area couple is known throughout Butler County for their bands — Jericho Old Time Band, Rabbit Hash String Band ...

The Old Time Music Gathering brings Appalachian fiddle tunes to the Pacific Northwest this week. (Charles Espey/Old Time Music Gathering) Get your fiddle tuned and your good boots shined, because it's ...

Regina Carter, a renowned violin virtuoso, will be bringing her blend of Appalachian fiddle tunes, church hymns and folk music to the borough when she performs in concert at the Brooklyn Center for ...

Emilie Miller is tapping her cowboy-booted foot in time to her father Ed's guitar strums. Her flowy red dress sways subtly as she saws on her fiddle and steps up to the microphone to sing. It's early ...

Bluegrass music, string band music and the sounds of Appalachia are literally as old as the hills from which they were borne. Yet it also hold true that whatever is old is often new again when a ...