12 Facts About Old-time music

Old-time music is a genre of North American folk music.

Old-time music represents perhaps the oldest form of North American traditional music other than Native American music, and thus the term "old-time" is an appropriate one.

Old-time music is played using a wide variety of stringed instruments.

This, along with a Dobro, is considered 'standard' bluegrass instrumentation, but old-time music tends to focus on sparser instrumentation and arrangements compared to bluegrass.

Appalachian folk Old-time music is brought to the United States by immigrants and slaves.

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Old-time music has been adopted by individual Native American musicians including Walker Calhoun of Big Cove, in the Qualla Boundary (home to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, just outside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in western North Carolina).

Fiddle Old-time music has been popular since the 19th century in other Western states such as Oklahoma and Colorado.

Current old-time music scene is alive and well, sparked since the mid-1990s by the combined exposure resulting from several prominent films, more accessible depositories of source material, and the work of a few of touring bands, including The Freight Hoppers, The Wilders, Uncle Earl, Old Crow Medicine Show, and the Glade City Rounders.

Family bands, such as The Martin Family Band, from Maryland, are continuing the traditions of old time Old-time music played on fiddle, banjo, lap dulcimer, hammered dulcimer, mandolin, piano, guitar, bass and percussion.

Old-time fiddle-based string band music is often played for dances, it is often characterized as dance music.

In dance music as played by old-time string bands, emphasis is placed on providing a strong beat, and instrumental solos, or breaks, are rarely taken.

Players usually learn old-time music by attending local jam sessions and by attending festivals scattered around the country.