Will Carter, the founder of Clifftop, perhaps the premiere old-time festival in the world, has said that old-time music is about “that tradition of participating in the art. It’s not about a stage.” Of course, there is a stage at Clifftop, though, true to the concept, it’s the participation that people go for—dozens of circles of people playing banjos, fiddles, guitars, dulcimers, basses, and joining in a style of music that we associate most with rural Appalachia.
Erynn Marhshall and Carl Jones, “Old Tin”
Erynn Marhshall and Carl Jones, “Old Tin”
Erynn Marhshall and Carl Jones, “Old Tin”
Will Carter, the founder of Clifftop, perhaps the premiere old-time festival in the world, has said that old-time music is about “that tradition of participating in the art. It’s not about a stage.” Of course, there is a stage at Clifftop, though, true to the concept, it’s the participation that people go for—dozens of circles of people playing banjos, fiddles, guitars, dulcimers, basses, and joining in a style of music that we associate most with rural Appalachia.