Across the Blue Ridge #93- Fiddle Mentors, Sack Full of Songs, and New Music
This week's show brings us a fun listening opportunity in southern mountain fiddling.
This week's show brings us a fun listening opportunity in southern mountain fiddling.
Alan Jabbour, the founding director of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, played fiddle, documented traditions and mentored others.
Our summer listening party continues this week with a tremendous selection of classic and new music from the mountains and beyond. From Kentucky, old time fiddler Snake Chapman plays his beau
This week's Across the Blue Ridge treats us to field and studio recordings of historic musicians from the 1920s to the 1990s; contrasts between old and new renditions of classic tunes. Our fe