Up on stage at New York's annual River to River summer music festival, a four-piece string band is tearing through the song "Sourwood Mountain." The fiddle wails, the banjo frails and a few members of ...

Some music genres reward almost any innovation or improvisation. But impressing old-time fans with your unique arrangements of fiddle and banjo tunes can be harder than nailing Jell-O to a fence post.

Morning Journal/Scott Lendak The brass sextet with Marco Cagliuso and Izzy Travis on trumpet, Eric Ji on french horn, Siera Macklin on trombone, Ben Bucholtz on euphonium and Bridget Szabo on tuba ...