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Bill Hensley, Mountain Fiddler, Asheville, North Carolina. Old time (also spelled old-time or oldtime) fiddle is the style of American fiddling found in old-time music.Old time fiddle tunes are derived from European folk dance forms such as the jig, reel, breakdown, schottische, waltz, two-step, and polka.
Charles Thomas Bowman (July 30, 1889 – May 20, 1962) was an American old-time fiddle player and string band leader. He was a major influence on the distinctive fiddle sound that helped shape and develop early Country music in the 1920s and 1930s. [2]
Gordon Stobbe (/ ˈ s t oʊ b i / STOH-bee; [1] born 1945–46) C.M is a Canadian fiddler, multi-instrumentalist, and composer based in Seaforth, Nova Scotia.Stobbe was born in Saskatchewan, but has made his home on the East Coast of Canada since 1977.
The Grand North American Old Time Fiddle Championship is the longest-running annual fiddle contest in Alberta, held in mid-July. [1] The event started in 1981, becoming part of Klondike Days (known as K-Days ) in the 1990s, and with virtual contests held during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021. [ 2 ]
Nov. 27—The Washington Old Time Fiddlers Association will host an open acoustic music jam on Friday, Dec. 1, from 10 a.m. to noon at Faith Baptist Church in Chehalis. The church is located at ...
Brad Leftwich (born June 30, 1953) is an American old-time fiddler, banjo player, singer and teacher of traditional old-time style. He is originally from Oklahoma but has resided in Bloomington, Indiana for most of his life.
The canonical American fiddle tune, "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" was written by Charlie Daniels as an interpretation the "Lonesome Fiddle Blues" by Vassar Clements and has been covered innumerable times. Although classified as country rock, the tune uses licks based on old-time fiddle playing and rock guitar riffs. Unlike most old-time ...
Violet Hensley was born in Mount Ida, Montgomery County, Arkansas, to George Washington and Nora Brumley.George was also a musician. She had two sisters. In 1935, she married Adren Hensley and had nine or ten children with him in total, after which she ceased to make fiddles for several decades.