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video essay about old time vs bluegrass styles: The Fiddle Channel

This mini documentary explores the differences between bluegrass and old time music, examining historical, musical, technical, social, and cultural factors. It also provides resources for further learning, including books, video courses, and a Patreon page for exclusive content.

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Brittany Haas & Bruce Molsky - "John Brown's Dream"

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Brittany Haas & Lena Jonsson - Keeping The Cats Happy

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Folkways: Music of Surry County

PBS special about the music of Surry County NC (ie "round peak" old time music)

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Missouri tunes- Kelly Jones: Authentic Old-Time Fiddle (1975)

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Folk music in the Australian bush | 1966 | Rare footage restored

Some colorized documentary footage with fiddling and several songs that wouldn't be out of place in Appalachia at that same time

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Ben Kiser and Rachel Dunaway- Lost Indian (from Mose Coffman)

Over on Reddit's r/fiddle we've been talking about lot about this fiddler's fantastic playlist of tunes from a bunch of the Kentucky fiddlers (primarily). I've learned some of those tunes in the past but it's great to have nice clear modern versions of them on YouTube played

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Rhiannon Giddens: Music of the American Underclass - What Really Made America Great

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The High Lonesome Sound documentary (1963) - Roscoe Holcombe, Bill Monroe, and more

This is an AMAZING black and white film documentary about Kentucky old-time and bluegrass music made by John Cohen of the New Lost City Ramblers, one of the early 'revivalists' from the early 60's. I believe there are a few other documentaries from him, one on ballad singing and

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cool playlist of early Cajun music

I was looking for some non-Appalachian stuff to post here- there's plenty! - and found this cool playlist of old Cajun music: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB5F310F1A50A7B3C

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video essay about old time vs bluegrass styles: The Fiddle Channel

Brittany Haas & Bruce Molsky - "John Brown's Dream"

Brittany Haas & Lena Jonsson - Keeping The Cats Happy

Folkways: Music of Surry County

Missouri tunes- Kelly Jones: Authentic Old-Time Fiddle (1975)

Folk music in the Australian bush | 1966 | Rare footage restored

Ben Kiser and Rachel Dunaway- Lost Indian (from Mose Coffman)

Rhiannon Giddens: Music of the American Underclass - What Really Made America Great

The High Lonesome Sound documentary (1963) - Roscoe Holcombe, Bill Monroe, and more

cool playlist of early Cajun music

You’ve reached the end of the feed.

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