Every Monday night, 86-year-old Gene “Pappy” Merritts can be found onstage at Robert’s Western World singing and playing fiddle for John England and the Western Swingers. The stage, under neon beer ...

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LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Tommy Hancock, renowned fiddle-player, songwriter and an inspiration to decades of west Texas artists, passed away Wednesday evening at 90 years-old. Hancock was born and ...

Cecil Brower, who brought classical jazz violin to Western swing, died unexpectedly on this day in 1965. He was 50 years old.

The Quebe sisters were getting restless. Grace, Sophia and Hulda waited patiently as they each took individual fiddle lessons near their home in a suburb of Fort Worth, Texas. Finally, their ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Music does not get any more Texas than Western Swing, said band leader Dave Alexander, and it’s never easier to catch 9 top notch Western Swing ...

SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. — Danny Knicely is new to this year’s Upper Potomac Fiddle Retreat, and he’s looking forward to it. “They get some folks from out of town, types of fiddle music that aren’t from ...

Two women plus 12 instruments equals one good time when Simple Gifts takes the stage on Friday, March 8, at SUNY Cortland. Combining tradition with innovation, Simple Gifts creates some of the finest ...

What goes around comes around: one of the most critically acclaimed albums of recent years was The Pine Valley Cosmonauts Salute the Majesty of Bob Wills, featuring a bunch of postmodern pickers from ...

While any fiddler in Texas can play “Faded Love,” the versions at the Festival of Texas Fiddling, in Blanco, might sound as different as an owl does from a rooster. The styles could be Gulf Coast, ...

With events all over the community, Berks Country Fest (named after our Berks Country magazine) is in full swing. There’s plenty to do almost every afternoon and evening. This Friday, Meadowood Music ...

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