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Mark O’Connor will turn 60 this August and not far behind, the 50th anniversary of his arrival on the roots music scene. A musical prodigy if ever there…
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Starting about 2000, a new generation of American bluegrass and traditional string musicians came of age and launched careers. They were raised at fiddle…
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Violinist Jenny Scheinman was newly in New York, a twentysomething breaking into the jazz scene when she got her first big ask – to play a fourteen-show…
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In her single “Good Ol’ Girls” released earlier this year, Nashville’s Jenee Fleenor sings of a little kid in Arkansas who starts fiddling country tunes…
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Two years ago, a book of biography, art and musical manuscripts was published under the title John Hartford’s Mammoth Collection of Fiddle Tunes.…
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Belen Escobedo grew up on the mostly Tejano South Side of San Antonio, TX, hearing norteño and mariachi music on the radio and the accordion-based…
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John Hartford died seventeen years ago today, but his influence on today’s bluegrass and acoustic scene remains as strong and direct as any other founding…
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CRAIG HAVIGHURST) -- If you watched Michael Cleveland play the fiddle without hearing him, you’d be hard pressed to imagine a beautiful…