Word: fiddlin
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...lawn that faces the bandstand. Encouraging smells begin to drift from the beef barbecue pit. The day's first Frisbee frizzes across the gray sky. Warmup musicians, two men and a woman of a group called Bluebird, plug in their guitars. Here in Rutland, the Grand Old-Time Fiddlin' Contest is gathering momentum...
...Cambridges during a real live I-know-I-chose-Cambridge-over-New-Haven-even-knowing-Bonnie-Raitt-lives-in-California-because-her-first-album-was-her-best sunny spring folk music festival. They play on the high school steps in Weiser, Idaho, once a year for the real fiddlin' championship, but this saves camping out on the football field and you will still hear some fine fiddle tunes played by some fine fiddlers...
...migratory workers during the Depression. Commercial country was born in the 1920s out of an amalgamation of American folk, British airs and hymns, and Negro gospel and blues. The New York record companies sent their men South to make wax discs of such performers as Samantha Bumgarner and Fiddlin' John Carson. Then they found the Carter Family, hillbilly virtuosos from Virginia, and the first idol of country, Jimmie Rodgers (1897-1933). Country was off and running...
Really Old Oldtime Fiddlin...
...your story on oldtime fiddlin' [April 26], I heartily agree with the judge that bluegrass and rock 'n' roll is ruining the oldtime music. My father being an old-time fiddle champion, I was raised up on that kind of music, but the hokum that's allowed at some of these contests is far from the original music. I have been a qualified national judge in some nine states west of the Mississippi River and have judged some of the best fiddlers out this way. It's my belief unless this bluegrass and rock...