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North Atlantic Tune List
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Owen Grooms Presents Dave Desmelik and Potluck Live and Live Streamed
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Dave Desmelik is a singer-songwriter and instrumentalist whose musical focus is on original compositions. What attracts listeners …
Cedar Mountain News for May 7th, 2026
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Hiking the Frank Coggins Trail in Caesar’s Head State Park
The Frank Coggins Trail is located in Caesars Head State Park in South Carolina and starts across the street from the Visitor’s Center. You park there and take a crosswalk to the trail head. There is a fee to hike in Caesars Head. We buy an annual pass at the …
We have a new name and an additional employee-owner!
It is hard to believe we have been offering the Canteen to the community for 6 years now. We became an employee-owned cooperative over 2 years ago and as of April 29th we now have our 4th employee-owner. Please welcome Tod Schmidt to the employee-ownership team of Owen Grooms, Kim …
Owen Grooms Presents Old Sap and Jackson Grimm + Potluck Live and Live Streamed
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Poet from Chicago, rambled out to Montana, cut a banjo from a tamarack, strings …
A walk at Sherwood Forest Golf Course
Today, I joined John at Sherwood Golf Course on Route 276 (at 29 Cardinal Rd, Brevard, NC) while he golfed. I have played in the past but today I was just up for a walk. It is a beautiful course and I enjoyed walking it with …
Owen Grooms Presents David Matters and Jackson Dulaney Live and Live Streamed
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David Matters of the band Life Like Water, and virtuoso multi-instrumentalist Jackson Dulaney take …
Parlor Pickers Society ( Centralia, Washington )
Parlor Pickers Society
Yet another source for MP3s of tunes. I counted 143. Many of the tune names are new to me; maybe we need to learn’em.
Hiking Jones Gap Trail to Silver Step Falls via the Winds
Jones Gap State Park in South Carolina, literally a few hundred yards past the state line, is one of my favorite places to hike. I like to enter at the forest service gate on 276. You cannot park there anymore but we park at …
TrailJams – Irish and Old Time
TrailJams is a really interesting group in the Portland, Oregon area. They started during COVID playing old time and have branched out into Irish, which seems to be their main emphasis now. They have several slow jams and sessions around, …
Owen Grooms presents Alex Ball Live and Live Streamed
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Owen Grooms Presents Alex Ball and Potluck
April 12th @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Alex and Owen first …
Hiking the Continental Divide Road, one of DuPont Forests Newest Additions
DuPont State Recreational Forest’s
Continental Divide Road
DuPont’s Continental Divide Road Trail connects Solomon Jones Road to Reasonover Road. The trail is really wide and easy to walk. There are some elevation changes. This was an out and back hike. I did 4.31 miles total. I haven’t …
Cedar Mountain News for April 9th, 2026
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Owen Grooms presents Jackson Grimm Live and Live Streamed
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Owen Grooms Presents Jackson Grimm and Potluck
April 6 @ 6:00 …
Appalshop
Appalshop ( YouTube channel )
Appalachian culture by the people, for the people. That’s how I would describe this incredible resource. Music, yes, but much more — dance, crafts, social and economic justice, foodways, … — the whole package. I have mentioned the
Cedar Mountain News for April 2nd, 2026
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“Can I give this another life?”
Everything has a life, but here at the canteen, I see things living past their standard one-time use that we have been conditioned to think is the norm. The canteen inspires me every day in so many ways, but especially in how I up-cycle—from my dried paint palette chips, added …
Owen Grooms presents Josh Carter Live and Live Streamed
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Josh Carter and Owen Grooms form a dynamic duo of roots musicians …
Deep dive into Arkansas Traveler ( on Traditional Tune Archive )
Old Time Resource of the Week: Deep dive into Arkansas Traveler
The story and backstory of this iconic fiddle tune is worth reading. Plus, how many fiddle tunes have their own Wikipedia page?
It all appears to start in 1847 — not far back …
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