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Old Time Resource of the Week: The Old-Time Fiddler (with Matt Brown)
Old Time Resource of the Week: The Old-Time Fiddler (with Matt Brown)
Matt Brown is a terrific old time fiddler and teacher. He has been posting good instructional materials on his YouTube channel and recently has started a podcast format where he has in-depth interviews …
Old Time Resource of the Week: Jake Blount (website)
Old Time Resource of the Week: Jake Blount
Circling back to Black History Month, there is one artist that I meant to highlight — Jake Blount. He has really dug into the backstory of string band music and its connection to African-American …
Owen Grooms presents Adam Masters Live and Live Streamed
Owen Grooms presents Adam Masters, March 9, 2026 at 6:30 pm.
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Adam Masters is a real fiddler’s fiddler, winning multiple awards and being featured alongside Arvil Freeman, Bobby Hicks and Roger Howell as a …
Black Old Time We Didn’t Know Was Old Time
I’m going out on a limb here and give my un-researched, un-fact-checked version of African Americans in old time music. Blues was such a strong marketing label that every Black artist was marketed as blues (or jazz or spiritual) even if their actual repertoire was much wider and eclectic. Elijah …
Owen Grooms presents Carrie Morrison and Aoife Clancy Live and Live Streamed
Owen Grooms presents Carrie Morrison & Aoife Clancy, February 23, 2026 at 6:30 pm.
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Owen Grooms Presents: Carrie Morrison & Aoife Clancy & Community Potluck
February 23 @ …
Got coloring books and crayons, markers, colored pencils?
Do you have coloring book and crayons, markers and colored pencils we can borrow for the mental health festival March 14 and 15? We are looking for items you already own and want to share. We do not want anything purchased new. If you would like to share, please let …
Owen Grooms presents Jenn Linville live and live stream & Community Potluck
Owen Grooms presents Jenn Linville, February 16, 2026 at 6:30 pm.
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Jennifer Rhea Linville and Owen Grooms play heartwarming original and traditional songs on guitar, banjo, mandolin and fiddle. Jenn …
Old Time Resource of the Week: Featured artist: Rhiannon Giddens
Old Time Resource of the Week: Featured artist: Rhiannon Giddens
We continue honoring African-American musicians in old time music. In one way, Rhiannon Giddens [Wikipedia] is a come-lately, but I believe she is the key to the complete sea change in understanding of …
Owen Grooms presents Cody Hale live and live stream & Community Potluck
Owen Grooms presents Cody Hale, February 9, 2026 at 6:30 pm.
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Cody Hale is a singer/songwriter from Penrose, North Carolina. He began writing music in 2010 after a career ending …
Black String Band Tradition
Old Time Resource of the Week: Black String Band Tradition
We’ll start our Black History Month exploration with a program from a couple of decades ago, re-posted here from the Afropop Worldwide site. It gives us one view/overview of this history, and …
Website: Mainly Norfolk
Old Time Resource of the Week: Mainly Norfolk
A bit of a departure. Many of our songs come from British and Irish sources. Also, many folks from over there have recorded songs from this side of the pond. Mainly Norfolk shows the history of the …
Website: Internet Archive (archive.org)
Old Time Resource of the Week: Internet Archive (archive.org)
This amazing resource is good for many, many things related to our music. There are 78s, LPs, etc., but also old books, tune …
YouTube channel: Transylvania JAM Teaching Videos
Old Time Resource of the Week: Transylvania JAM Teaching Videos
Lest we scour the Interwebs for tunes, thinking they are all somewhere else, why not turn to our own backyard? We have wonderful folks here teaching old time tunes to young folks and they’ve created dozens of …
Website: Old Time Conversations
Old Time Resource of the Week: Old Time Conversations
This was a new one on me. I’m glad I ran across it. High quality video conversations with old time musicians. Most of the content looks to be for sale as DVDs or books, but there’s a great video of …
Streaming audio: Dust-to-Digital Radio
Dust-to-Digital is a wonderful record label. They have recently launched an Internet radio station which streams music from their massive archive of recordings from around the globe. Look for the player widget on their home page.
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