EAST GRAND FORKS — Jeanne O’Neil, co-founder of North Country Fiddle and Dance, isn’t worried about the traditional songs and dances her organization helps put together going away anytime soon. While ...
Prof. Craig Womack, English, Emory University, sang a Creek hymn to audience members in Caldwell Hall on Friday, recounting stories from his role as a fiddler in traditional dances at Oklahoma’s ...
“I’m a dance fiddler, not a concert fiddler,” says Cabot farmer and fiddler David Carpenter. It’s a mid-October day, Dingo the dog is vying for his attention, the sun is warm. Carpenter is walking ...
“I try to take it back to the Bush Dances they had long ago. They had fiddle playing and they also had singing in Métis or Michif,” he said in a phone interview from his home in Belcourt, North Dakota ...
The North Country Fiddle and Dance group will present a concert with traditional music and clogging demonstrations, beginning at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, July 24, at the East Grand Forks Heritage Center.
At first glance, the fiddle looks a lot like a violin. The biggest difference is the piece that holds the strings together. "The bridge itself can be a little bit flatter, so you can play multiple ...
Spend a few hours at Howell Living History Farm this summer and learn about truck gardens, weighing pigs or watering the orchard. Or play old-time baseball, cool off with homemade ice cream, catch a ...
The second Hartford Symphony Masterworks concert of the season literally has the orchestra stomping its feet, snapping its fingers and banging on pots and pans at The Bushnell’s Belding Theater. This ...