Tromping through dense woods at the base of Sky Ball Mountain with a dull, rusty saw in his right hand is William Childers. Walking behind him is his son Joseph, who grips the handle of a sharp saw.

While any fiddler in Texas can play “Faded Love,” the versions at the Festival of Texas Fiddling, in Blanco, might sound as different as an owl does from a rooster. The styles could be Gulf Coast, ...

TULSA, Okla. — Oklahomans showed off their musical talent at the 51st Oklahoma State Fiddling Championships held at the Tulsa State Fair on Saturday. Scott Pendleton, the emcee of the competition, ...

A father-son duo known as the "Fiddling Thomsons" do far more than fiddle. Ryan and Brennish Thomson play guitar, mandolin, piano, and flute, and sing and dance. They have performed worldwide and ...

'Think, my friends, how could any pool table hope to compete with a gold trombone?" In 1957, those words were uttered by con man Harold Hill, in Meredith Willson's hit musical The Music Man. But by ...

Mitchell Olson has always been mesmerized by a skilled violin player, but playing the fiddle is even more impressive. Believe it or not most people probably wouldn’t know that the Fiddle and the ...

Civil War on the Border: Quantrill’s Raid Walking Tour, 8-9:30 a.m. Tickets and location information at watkinsmuseum.org. Civil War on the Border: Early Churches of Lawrence Walking Tour, 10 ...