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Owen Grooms Presents Old Sap and Potluck
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Poet from Chicago, rambled out to Montana, cut a banjo from a tamarack, strings across the country, foot like a freight train, voice rushing down over lush Appalachia, sings a thrush tune through the rush hour and into your long-forgotten prairie …
Old Time Fiddle Lessons from Chance McCoy
Old Time Fiddle Lessons from Chance McCoy
Good clear video run-throughs of some tasty tunes. It’s fiddle-oriented but should work for learning the melody on any instrument.
The videos are split screen so you can see the bowing as well as the left-hand fingering.
This is a valuable …
Cedar Mountain News for September 30th, 2026
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Remarkable Values from June Appal Recordings
Remarkable values from June Appal
Bob Buckingham told me about this. Many classic June Appal recordings are available on Bandcamp on a “name your own price” basis.
Website: SC Fiddling — Fiddlers in South Carolina
SC Fiddling
This odd little site hasn’t been updated in over a decade but there is some worthwhile information on fiddling and fiddlers in South Carolina. It is basically an inventory of all the fiddlers in the state, past and present, with sound recordings of many …
Music blog: Cornbread, Molasses, and Sassafras Tea
Cornbread, Molasses, and Sassafras Tea
Music blogs were an Internet phenomenon before streaming. You could say they’re obsolete but I wish they would come back. The blogger usually has interesting historical and personal reflections on the music — something we don’t get as much these days.
But …
Owen Grooms Presents Jennifer Rhea Linville and Potluck
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Jennifer Rhea Linville and Owen Grooms play heartwarming original and traditional songs on guitar, banjo, mandolin and fiddle. Jenn grew up in Transylvania County, North Carolina, and has played music here throughout her life’s journey with her family and friends, including …
Cedar Mountain News for September 2nd, 2026
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Oldtime Central
Oldtime Central appears to be a thing of the past — the newest video on the YouTube channel is from 2021. But thanks to the cultural storage facility called the Internet, there is oldtime gold there for the taking. Likewise, the Facebook page linked above.
I don’t have Instagram (or …
Owen Grooms Presents: Madeline Dierauf + Lindsay Emmons and Potluck
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Madeline Dierauf and Lindsay Emmons—fresh off a summer of touring together with The Wilder Flower—are excited to bring original songs and (too) many instruments to The Canteen. Brevard native Madeline Dierauf is a blue-ribbon fiddler and creative songwriter, as well as …
We are creating a community rag rug for our new living room/library. Join us!
We are setting up a living room in our new space and needs a rug so we decided to do what an Appalachian Cultural Center would do and we are hosting the creation of a community rag rug. Have you ever made one? We would love to learn from those …
Cedar Mountain News for August 26th, 2026
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Owen Grooms Presents Paddle Faster and Potluck
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Paddle Faster is an acoustic duo playing Bluegrass, traditional country, and Americana music, based in Hendersonville, NC area. Great harmony singing built around Karen’s banjo and Scott on guitar, electric guitar and mandolin. Always a great time!
Karen and Scott also lead …
Interview: Austen->Contradance->Banjo diva ( Rhiannon Giddens )
Austen->Contradance->Banjo diva
Rhiannon Giddens is a phenomenal artist of our time. This group probably first encountered her as a member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. In this interview on the very, very pop-oriented podcast Song Exploder, she tells how being …
There’s No Time Like Old-time
Blog article: There’s No Time Like Old-time
This quirky article comes from the FiddleHed website. Guest author Jim Guinn gives his take on the origins and evolution of old time music.
Cedar Mountain News for August 20th, 2026
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