• 2025 Fiddle Showdown in Fort Worth

    Winners at the 2025 Fort Worth Fiddle Showdown - photo © Pamm Tucker The Fort Worth Livestock Show stands as not just a celebration of agriculture and livestock, but also a vibrant hub for showcasing talent and nurturing educational pursuits. At

  • Cherry Street – Benny Sidelinger

    Benny Sidelinger seems like an unassuming sort of guy. His bio consists of an anecdote about an introduction he was once given at a local watering hole where he was rather anonymous at the time. Nevertheless, it's a clever means

  • Gene Horner passes

    Gene Horner in his shop (12/6/16) - photo © Hollie Deese, Nashville Interiors Well-known east Tennessee violin maker and luthier Gene Horner died on January 14 at the Ben Atchley Tennessee Veteran's Home in Knoxville, TN He was 91 years of

  • Short Life of Trouble available online

    The short film treatment of the life of legendary old time fiddler G.B. Grayson, Short Life of Trouble: The Legend of G.B. Grayson, has been made available to the public for online viewing. The 2020 project, directed by Kelley St. Germain,

  • Buddy Melton departing Balsam Range

    Buddy Melton, fiddler, vocalist, and founding member of perennial bluegrass headliners Balsam Range, has announced his departure from the group. Since the band's founding in 2007 by five friends living in Haywood County, NC - just west of Asheville - Melton

  • Zeke Dawson passes

    Lifelong bluegrass and country fiddler Zeke Dawson died on November 11 at his home near Nashville, TN. He was 84 years of age. Zeke had played in numerous bluegrass groups, as well as top country artists in Nashville. Born in Prince