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Her parents were Irish immigrants, and she finds that the music of teh Appalachian mountains echoes that heritage.

Fiddle Champion Eileen Ivers

She learned to play from an Irish fiddler in the back of a New York City bar. Since then, her career has led her to gigs with everyone from the London Symphony to the Chieftains.
At the soundboard.

Larry Groce

Testing, one two, you got me, this is Larry Groce, host of Mountain Stage, director of FestivALL…
Young animals can be needy, sometimes needing as much care and specialized attention as a human baby.

Livestock in My Living Room

Winter can be hard on newborn farm stock. And despite painstaking care from owners, some survive, and some don’t.
Montana Young. Her fiddle was made by Arthur Connor, of Copper Hill, Va.

Montana Young

Forget bluegrass stereotypes of old bearded men in overalls. Part of the reason bluegrass music thrives is its generation-to-generation permanence. Montana Young, who lives east of the Crooked Road in southwest Virginia, is one of the faces of what s
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Rhonda Vincent: Back to Bluegrass

Well, it was a musical family, traced back at least five generations of the Vincent family, so it was a way of life, and just something that my family did.
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