Johnny Irion On His Artistic Lineage
Johnny Irion's family is rich in writing and music. His great uncle is John Steinbeck and his wife and collaborator is Arlo Guthrie's daughter. He talks with Scott Simon about his new album.
As the festival and fiddlers' convention season gathers steam with events all over the mountain south, we find out about the Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame (where ATBR's Paul Brown will emc
Composer Béla Bartók was the father of ethnomusicology, scouring the villages of Eastern Europe for folk songs.