As Strings Music Festival approaches its 40th year, the nonprofit performing arts organization finds itself at a pivotal and ...

Yonder Mountain String Band has never been a group built around rigid onstage or offstage plans. Despite that fact, their ...

Over the course of its quarter-century-plus life span, Yonder Mountain String Band has released eleven studio albums that capture its enduring appeal and creative songwriting abilities. Fans of the ...

The Reedy River String Band has its roots in Greenville, but the acoustic “newgrass” trio has found a second home in ...

Even though the Philadelphia Eagles suffered a season-ending loss to the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, that doesn’t mean there won’t be some incredible on-field performances at Lincoln Financial ...

In March of 2025, at the annual Big Ears Music Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, I was one of hundreds of festival-goers entranced by a group of up-and-coming musicians exploring a storied American ...

Appalachian String Band Music Festival held at Camp Washington Carver in Clifftop. The festival is a five-day mountaintop gathering of musicians and friends with contests, concerts, workshops, square ...

When Nick Piccininni got the call in 2020 from Yonder Mountain String Band to sub in for some shows in place of mandolin player Jacob Jolliff, he wasn’t expecting it to be a big deal. “At the time, I ...

The University of North Georgia (UNG) String Band is a student-led ensemble that performs repertoire from the old-time and bluegrass traditions. The String Band plays for a contra dance every semester ...

Hubby jenkins, of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, speaks of his path to membership in the band as “my own educational journey.” Jenkins, 27, is fairly new to the group; Carolina Chocolate Drops formed ...

Four UNG students, along with Dr. Esther Morgan-Ellis, professor of music history, attended the fourth annual String Band Summit, where they presented a workshop and papers. Morgan-Ellis said students ...

Oct. 1—In the final decades of the Hawaiian monarchy, and for a decade or two afterward, the violin, viola, cello, zither, autoharp and Western flute were integral parts of Hawaiian music. In the ...