Soldier’s Joy, Saturday Morning Music

Enjoy a little fiddle music to start the weekend off right. I’m stuck with snow and ice and little outdoor work is appealing today. Advertisements

Woody, Pete, and Some Hand-Made Music

“What are ears? What is Time? that this particular series of sounds called a strain of music, … can be wafted down through the centuries from Homer to me, and he have been conversant with that same aerial and mysterious charm which now so tingles my ears? What a fine communication from age to age, […]

Old Joe Clark

A simple, short tune that in the hands of master craftsmen becomes truly great. And it’s a real American Classic. I guess the South isn’t all bad.

A Long Way from Home

Painting by Robert Griffing.

Musician

From the New York Public Library Collections. Access like this is what makes the internet truly great. Click the image to browse the collections.

Gypsy Music School

Janos Valentiny Hungarian artist (1842—1902) Oil, canvas; 1896