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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.
Website: The Henry Reed Collection
Old Time Resource of the Week: The Henry Reed Collection
What a wonder that this collection exists. Folklorist and fiddler Alan Jabbour interviewed, documented, transcribed, learned, propagated, and preserved as much as he could of Henry Reed, an amazing …
Website: Slower Than Dirt
Old Time Resource of the Week: Slower Than Dirt
For some reason there’s a heck of a lot of old time music on the West Coast. This site from Seattle has a wealth of tunes and other resources, many of which you’ll recognize from my earlier posts. Peruse …
YouTube channel: FiddleStar — Megan Lynch Chowning
Megan Lynch Chowning is a really good fiddler and all-around musician. But she also is a great teacher and hosts several music camps. Two more things that …
Old Time Music on Soundcloud
Old Time Resource of the Week: Soundcloud
This will take some digging and experimenting on your part, but there are some gems buried here. Any keywords you search for will return as many puzzling false hits as actual old time music. I had pretty good luck with
YouTube channel: Adam Hurt’s Online Jam
Old Time Resource of the Week: Adam Hurt’s Online Jam YouTube channel
Wow! What a good resource for learning and playing tunes. The one I watched had Adam on fiddle and Beth Hartness on guitar. They played eleven D tunes, many of which we play. The …
Old Time Music on Bandcamp
Old Time Resource of the Week: Old Time Music on Bandcamp
Bandcamp, if you haven’t explored it, is like its own Internet of music, pretty much outside the world of the major labels. Consequently, a good place for “our” music. You can listen …
Website: Ballad of America
Old Time Resource of the Week: Ballad of America
This ambitious organization seeks to make America’s diverse musical heritage an integral part of our youth’s education. The very well-organized website includes a page on old time music with lots of …
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