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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 …
Cedar Mountain News for February 12, 2026
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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 …
Website: Mary Gordon and Hilary Dirlam Present
Old Time Resource of the Week: Mary Gordon and Hilary Dirlam Present
What better resource to feature this week?! Many of you have well-thumbed copies of these books. This will help them get into the hands of the next generation and beyond. Mary …
YouTube channel: Dave Wells
Old Time Resource of the Week: YouTube channel of Dave Wells
Oh, man, does he have some choice videos on his channel! The ones with Greg Hooven and Rose Sinclair drew me in, but there are many, many other great ones, mostly campground jams from the late 1980s at Galax, Mt. …
Website: DrDosido — Paul L. Tyler
Old Time Resource of the Week: DrDosido ( Paul L. Tyler )
This site has an impressive set of resources and recordings. Tyler is a Midwest-based folklorist and musician. It is heavy on Midwestern music, as you’d expect, but there are plenty of Southern and Southern-styled fiddlers on …
Play-along website: The Old-Time Jam
Old Time Resource of the Week: The Old-Time Jam website
This site promises to play accompaniment to old time tunes so you can play along. It’s associated with the Brainjo Academy. The Jam site appears to be free, with membership options that let you download MP3s and …
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