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This week we hear a fabulous Muddy Creek Music Hall stage performance from The New Ballard's Branch Bogtrotters, one of the finest mountain string bands performing today.

This week, as the fiddlers' convention season in the south really gets underway, we check out some songs and tunes old and new from the Virginia mountains.  In the southwestern part of Virgini

The allure of traditional southern music has spread across the U.S. and around the world. Case in point: David Bragger is a Los Angeles audio-video producer and musician.

The Mountains of Music Homecoming is just around the bend. The movable feast of roots music takes place in communities around southwestern Virginia June 9-17.

Mike “Lightnin'” Wells brings traditions together in his entertaining, informative and down-home one-man shows.  His latest album, titled “O Lightnin' Where Art Thou?”, displays his range as n

This week we take a moment at Merlefest – not for the main stage acts, but with the community of jammers at festivals.  Beyond that, we hear a fine selection of bluegrass and old time music wi

New recordings, a preview of roots music from a public TV series, and some classic fiddle tunes and bluegrass cuts share the spotlight this week.

A festival that started small at Wilkes Community College in North Carolina has become one of the most enthusiastically supported roots music events in the U.S.  Merlefest began in 1988 as an

One outcome of the folk music boom of the 1950s and ‘60s was an increased interest in the music from which much pop and folk had sprung: old-time and bluegrass.  While The Weavers, The Kingsto

This week we profile Buddy Pendleton (1935-2017), a remarkably talented and fluid Patrick County, Virginia fiddle player whose repertoire spanned old time, bluegrass, folk, swing and jazz.