In the midst of a time when we seem all too happy to reduce health-care benefits and deny emergency SNAP funds to feed 41.7 million Americans (240,000 Arkansans), the House of Representatives remains ...

The Country Harvest Hoedown is back for a toe-tapping, rollicking good time of fiddle music, with songs spanning decades and regions, all played by area fiddlers, both national champions and ...

So serious, that the Union Grove Ole Time Fiddlers Convention (that's a mouthful) has been gathering in the Village since ...

A new coffee lounge in Old Forge officially opened its doors, offering an engaging community experience.Ficcos Coffee held ...

The stories and legacies of Earl Lloyd, Chuck Cooper and Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton have been woven into the fabric of the NBA.

Twenty-five years after he left “S.N.L.,” he is still finding new audiences, most recently with a new CBS sitcom and a role in the DC Comics universe.

“It was a pleasure to induct Randall Franks into our Music Hall of Fame,” said LaDonna Ray, co-executive director. Franks, of Ringgold, thrilled the audience with a high-energy fiddle rendition of ...

The Westfield Senior Center will celebrate its 10-year anniversary on Sunday, Oct. 26 with tours of the building and a ...

If you like Ella Langley's "Choosin' Texas," we gathered the best salutes to Texas in country music from Ernest Tubb, Willie ...

Dwight in Denmark is a film about an easy-to-ignore old man from rural Iowa who is a culture hero. Dwight Lamb is an important American old-time fiddler. Discovered by Danish champion folk musicians, ...

The East Texas Yamboree is celebrating 88 years in 2025, and as it turns out, the fiddle is still one of the event's big stars. Players who take the stage at the annual contest range from children to ...

Unless I live to be older than the Biblical Moses, my life is half over. On the old paths of Stokes County, my Great-Great-Uncle Bill Spainhour lived to be 108, so I have chosen that age as my “rising ...