The 33rd Annual Lyons Fiddle Festival opened with a gospel service and as rain poured down on the crowd, Crow Hill performed on a covered stage on Sept. 18. Umbrellas and pop-up tents formed a canopy ...

Playing Appalachian music onstage with banjo and fiddle, the cleancut and tight-knit Stockdale Family Band seems to come from another era, one that’s less high-tech, cynical and disconnected. Based at ...

That’s a main rule of the Old Time Country Bluegrass Gospel Music Association, founded by Wayne and Cathy Agnew, who are preserving these unique musical styles performed before electric and percussion ...