Oct. 18—Greenville is poised and ready to greet November with the lively, charming sound of fiddle-driven Western swing music at its 10th annual Bob Wills Fiddle Festival and Contest. Combining ...

While still about two months away, plans for Greenville’s 11th annual Bob Wills Fiddle Festival & Contest are hurriedly underway. On Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, downtown Greenville is expected to be filled ...

When Guse “stumbled across” the band Asleep at the Wheel, led by Ray Benson, “that kind of busted everything open” for him ...

Western swing had lost a great deal of its popularity, and most dancehalls were less than full. Wills was battling the bottle, which led him to miss shows. He was also changing his home base from ...

The man who fused fiddle and jazz blazed musical trails followed by country and rock musicians today. Produced by Joyride Media.

On this day (December 17) in 1910, Donnell “Spade” Cooley was born in Grand, Oklahoma. He was an in-demand fiddle player who became a prominent figure in the western swing scene of California in the ...

Once upon a time, deep in the heart of Texas, siblings Hulda, Sophia and Grace Quebe all decided to pick up the violin and take lessons together at the behest of their mother, who wanted the girls to ...