The best banjo players seem are amazing. The speed and dexterity with which they play – coupled with the fact that banjos generally are smaller instruments...
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This is a 2001 reenactment of General Charles Cornwallis’ surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, which essentially ended the Revolutionary War. The tradition...
More Fun Facts: The Andrews Sisters were Greek – their real name was Andreos – but their first hit was based on a Yiddish fiddle tune called “Bei Mir Bist Du...
H/T: Cousin Ed Lindsey Stirling takes the violin in unique directions. Stirling — who also is a performance artist, composer and dancer, according to...
The great Lena Horne would have turned 98 years old today. Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was born in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a section of Brooklyn, NY, on June 30th 1917...
The last hurrah for the Grateful Dead is set for Chicago in a couple of weeks. One of the standards the band did (at least early on) was a song that it called...
Shelby Lynne is a versatile country singer/song writer. Her album, “I am Shelby Lynne,” won the Grammy for Best New Artist in 1999. Lynne was born...
With the songs above and below, Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience is a great reminder of how fluid music is. First, a little bit about Zydeco, which...
On this day in 1997, Chet Atkins Day was held in Nashville, according to Country Music Television. The site says that performers included Steve Wariner, Mark...
Here are ten fun music facts for the week of June 22: After graduating from college, Jimmy Buffett worked as a reporter for Billboard in Nashville and broke...
