Every Monday night, 86-year-old Gene “Pappy” Merritts can be found onstage at Robert’s Western World singing and playing fiddle for John England and the Western Swingers. The stage, under neon beer ...

What you’ll find after the jump was posted to Vimeo only a few hours ago: a cleaned-up version version of Ken Harrison’s 1981 doc on Western Swing fiddle-playing legend Johnny Gimble titled, simply, ...

RIFLE — Katie Glassman fuses soulful fiddling with a sparkling voice to span a range of genres from Western swing to vintage jazz and bluegrass. She and her band, Snapshot, will perform at the Clough ...

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 ...

Louise Rowe can still swing with the best of ’em, Western style. “I just kind of dance with it while I’m playing,” said Rowe, 82, who struts a stand-up bass with her band, the Texan Playboys. Six ...

The Lyons Fiddle Festival each year features a theme. This year showcased the family band. All bands were family members. The first band up on stage was the Martin Sisters bringing Western Swing. “We ...

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 ...