The winners from this past weekend's Grand Master Fiddler Championship at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, have been posted online. Held annually, the competition is an open format where fiddlers (and their accompanists) are eligible
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Hoot Hester passes
Hoot Hester, Kentucky fiddler and noted Nashville session player, has died today. He was 65 years of age and had been struggling with cancer. Born Hubert Duane Hester on August 13, 1951, Hoot had worked as a staff musician at the Grand Ole Opry,
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Greg Moore to Hillbilly Gypsies
West Virginia's Hillbilly Gypsies have announced the addition of Greg Moore to the band on fiddle. Founded by the husband-and-wife team of Trae and Jamie Lynn Buckner, the Gypsies have been working the bluegrass festival circuit in the southeastern US for
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Fiddlevideo.com joins the online instruction field
Revolutions can sweep away what came before them in swift and surprising ways, and we see that in the manner that music education has changed in the digital and internet age. New companies appear on a regular basis that take advantage of
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Carroll County Blues from The Western Flyers
Wild Blue Yonder is the debut album from The Western Flyers, a new western swing outfit that features the sparkling fiddle of Katie Glassman, the 2016 Swing Fiddling champion at the National Oldtime Fiddler’s Contest in Weiser, ID. In addition to Katie's fiddle, this
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Dan Kelly to Michael & Jennifer McLain
Michael & Jennifer McLain have announced the addition of Dan Kelly on fiddle, resulting in a new name for their act. Touring now as the Michael & Jennifer McLain Band featuring Dan Kelly, the group performs regularly at Arrington Vineyards,
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Lonesome Banjo Chronicles features Pattie Hopkins Kinlaw
The world of online podcasting continues to provide opportunities for folks with something to say, to say it to the wider community at a minimum of expense and trouble. A microphone, a computer, and an online connection is all that
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Michael Cleveland a viral video phenom!
It's often said these days that if you could figure out and bottle what makes videos go viral online, you'd have a pot of gold on your hands. Every so often, something universal in the human condition is captured digitally,
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Weiser 2016 report
Another great year has just concluded at the National Oldtime Fiddler's Contest and Festival in Weiser, Idaho. New this year, folks all over the world could tune in on their computers and watch the main stage as it happens since
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Michael Cleveland/Mono Neon mashup on Jerusalem Ridge
What happens when you mashup an incognito jazz bassist with a incomparable bluegrass improvisor like Michael Cleveland? Well, it's hard to explain in words; we'll just have to show you. It all started on May 21 at ForestFest in the Jefferson