This post was updated May 22 at 9:43 p.m. Community and tradition inspire the performers of the Old-Time String Band and African American Music Ensemble. Each class of musical performers has shared a ...

Members have come and gone over the years as Old Crow morphed from punky upstarts to middle-aged country music statesmen. The most recent evolution yielded “Paint This Town,” another set of smart, ...

Twenty years ago, the old-time string band Carolina Chocolate Drops turned heads and wowed audiences. They were young. They were Black. And with their fiddles and banjos, they launched a movement that ...

Modern Americana comes to the Vilar Performing Arts Center Oct. 10 with acoustic guitar, upright bass, fiddle, five-string banjo and the four-part harmonies of The Last Revel. The Minnesota-born band ...

Four UNG students, along with Dr. Esther Morgan-Ellis, professor of music history, attended the fourth annual String Band Summit, where they presented a workshop and papers. Morgan-Ellis said students ...

Ten years ago, Walker’s Run was one of Charlottesville’s most popular local bands. The unconventional bluegrass group fronted by guitarist and mandolin picker Brennan Gilmore — then a University of ...

Singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens has dedicated much of her career to exploring folk and roots music, including old-time, blues, Celtic folk, country, and gospel. In April, ...