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 ...

Old Crow Medicine Show bassist Morgan Jahnig was a little awestruck by the architecture of The Egg the last time the two-time Grammy-winning string band performed in upstate New York. “I remember it ...

The University of North Georgia (UNG) String Band is a student-led ensemble that performs repertoire from the old-time and bluegrass traditions. The String Band plays for a contra dance every semester ...

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 ...

Old Crow Medicine Show founding member Ketch Secor had no shortage of topics he was ready to discuss when he phoned in for a recent interview. There was, of course, another round of touring, a new ...

Appalachian String Band Music Festival held at Camp Washington Carver in Clifftop. The festival is a five-day mountaintop gathering of musicians and friends with contests, concerts, workshops, square ...

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 ...

Twenty years ago, the old-time string band Carolina Chocolate Drops turned heads and wowed audiences. They were young. They were Black. And with their fiddles and banjos, they launched a movement that ...

Old Crow Medicine Show is ready to raise the roof inside Hancher Auditorium on Saturday night. Opening act is Willie Watson, a founding member who left to pursue a solo career. (Brendan McLean) Buy ...

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, ...