Congratulations to Danny Johnston of Goodhart, Michigan. On August 10 at the 2014 Great Lakes Folk Festival Danny was awarded the Michigan Heritage Award for his fiddling and impact in…
The Byarski CollectionKarl Byarski lives in Huron County, Michigan in what is known as the Thumb area. In the early 1950's he purchased a tape recorder and started recording. He…
Written by Jim McKinney The Michigan State Championship Old-Time Fiddlers Contest was first held in October 1985 in Huron Township, Michigan as part of the Huron Township Applefest, a small…
Billy Sparrow By Jim McKinney When John Freeman was in town in early December, he gave me what he described as ?David Park Williams? original cassette recordings he had made when…
Karl Boyarski Homage article by Dave Langdon Dave Langdon wrote a homage article to the late Karl Byarski (an avid recorder of local fiddle music from the thumb of Michigan).…
For the past year, I have had a growing conviction about the state of Michigan fiddling. Once prior I forged a manifesto similar to this but never used it. In…