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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.
Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco skyline. This is a list of notable people from San Francisco, California.It includes people who were born or raised in, lived in, or spent significant portions of their lives in San Francisco, or for whom San Francisco is a significant part of their identity, as well as music groups founded in San Francisco.
"Orange Blossom Special" is a fiddle tune about the luxury passenger train of the same name.The song was written by Ervin T. Rouse (1917–1981) in 1938 and was first recorded by Rouse and his brother Gordon in 1939.
A music platform, Gracenote, listed more than 2000 music genres (included by those created by ordinary music lovers, who are not involved within the music industry, these being said to be part of a 'folksonomy', i.e. a taxonomy created by non-experts).
Jim Lauderdale (born 1957), bluegrass and country singer-songwriter ; Dennis Lee (born 1988), singer-songwriter (Winston-Salem and Raleigh) Del McCoury (born 1939), bluegrass musician (Bakersville) Scotty McCreery (born 1993), country singer and American Idol Season 10 winner ; Tift Merritt (born 1975), singer-songwriter, musician (Raleigh)
This is an alphabetical list of bluegrass musicians. For bands, see the List of bluegrass bands . This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
In 1925, McClintock participated in a KFRC Radio talent contest. [4] His performance of his song "The Big Rock Candy Mountains" won him spots on two new KFRC radio shows: a children's program titled Mac and His Gang where he sang popular cowboy songs with his "Haywire Orchestry", [5] [6] [note 1] and a variety program titled Blue Monday Jamboree, which he hosted with Meredith Willson, Bea ...
The Okee Dokee Brothers are an independent American folk and American roots children's music duo, Joe Mailander and Justin Lansing, from Minneapolis.Their 2012 CD/DVD release Can You Canoe?, with music and videos created during a 2011 paddle down the Mississippi River, won a Grammy for Best Children's Album in the 55th Grammy Awards. [1]