Thumbing through social media recently, I stumbled on music from a young artist I wasn't familiar with. So I tracked him down, and after many missed opportunities and conflicts, we finally managed to speak for an interview. Mason Via (pronounced VIGH),
Author: Pamm Tucker
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Shall We Hope – reliving the past with Tony Trischka
Have you ever had the desire to simply step back in time? To tread the paths that our forefathers did, to experience the life that our ancestors endured? Unfortunately, there is no time capsule that can take us back in
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Christmas Cheer (This Weary Year) video from Tony Trischka
Tony Trischka, like most other professional musicians, has felt the impact of COVID-19 in their lives, with increased show cancellations and uncertainty about the future. But as he said, fortunately, "My online banjo school has kept my family fed." As Tony
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Chicken and Bread Days – first live fiddle convention in Texas this year
For 25 years, Bowie, Texas has held an outdoor festival under the name of Chicken and Bread Days. It's always celebrated on the first Saturday in October, in honor of Bowie having once been the home of the world's largest
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Fiddle Camp with Jana Jae in Oklahoma
Labor Day is traditionally that last opportunity before Old Man Winter visits for family gatherings/reunions, cookouts, lake time and Jana Jae's Fiddle Camp in Grove, OK. While the COVID has many music venues shut down, Jae decided she could make Fiddle Camp happen
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Grand Lake National Fiddle Fest – 23 Years and still Counting!
Maddie Denton, 2020 Open Division winner at the Grand Lake Fiddle Fest Jana Jae, the Hee Haw star known for her blue fiddle, hosted the Grand Lake National Fiddle Fest at the American Heritage Music Festival event for the 23rd year. The festivities
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Jim Paul Blair passes
The state of Oklahoma and the wider music community has been rocked by the untimely death of Jim Paul Blair on February 11, 2020. He was 58 years of age and had recently been hospitalized with a lung infection. Blair, an
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A conversation with John McEuen
Jim Fondren, John McEuen, and Pamm Tucker As 2019 was wrapping up, I enjoyed a telephone conversation with one of the founding members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, the banjo player - and mandolin, guitar, fiddle, and if it has
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Danielle Szabo – the last soul lives on
Let me take you on a trip. A trip to Guthrie, to Byron Berline’s Double Stop Fiddle Shop, which burned February 23, 2019. The devastation hit the fiddle community with full force, much like an F5 tornado, leaving everything in
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2019 Oklahoma State Fiddling & Picking Contest
Sniff, Sniff.... What's that? Something's frying, and it sure smells good. Could it be a corndog? Maybe an Elephant Ear? I could sure go for some cotton candy too. Wait! There’s the sound of fiddles, banjos, guitars... yes, it's that time