12-year-old Izaak Schwartz can play nearly a dozen instruments. "I can play the piano, the organ, the banjo, the mandolin, the guitar, the accordion, the cello, the base, and the oboe," he said. Izaak ...

The Northern Appalachian Folk Festival will return to downtown Indiana Thursday through Saturday with live music, vendors, workshops, children’s activities and storytelling and fiddle contests. On ...

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — A new Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM) program is beginning on May 23rd for children ages 9 and older. Students can learn bluegrass music in a group with their teacher, and ...

Designed as a welcoming entry point into old-time and bluegrass traditions, the program will offer after-school group instruction in instruments common to the Appalachian region including fiddle, ...

ST. PAUL, Va. — Poetic will meet “wild” when the fiddling musician Ken Waldman and The Wild Ones — Janie Rothfield and Allan Carr — join together for a performance in St. Paul.

Appalachian Road Show's sound lies somewhere at the nexus of folk music's traditional Irish roots, the genesis of American popular music at Appalachian barn dances, and the Grand Ole Opry's birth in ...