For 90 years, the Galax Old Fiddlers Convention has stood as one of the nation’s most cherished celebrations of traditional music and culture and the longest running fiddlers convention in the nation. If you’ve never experienced the convention, the first thing to do is forget whatever image the word convention…...
The East Coast gets “Swanktified” —A conversation with Swanky Kitchen Band’s Samuel Rose
We are still abuzz after producing this summer’s East Coast Tour of the Cayman Island’s cultural guardians, the Swanky Kitchen Band. The group knocked out audiences at the Lowell Folk Festival. They performed to a full Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress and then were interviewed for the Archive…...
