Author: Nicholas Hancock

Here's another large gallery of Nick Hancock's images shot during the youth competition at the Old Fiddlers' Convention in Galax, VA on Monday, August 5. If you don't like photos of cute kids playing bluegrass and old time music, we

Creekwater Collective competing at the 2024 Old Fiddlers Convention - photo © G Nicholas Hancock 116 individual contestants between the ages of three and fifteen, and 17 youth bands registered to participate in the 88th annual Old Fiddlers Convention Youth Competition on Monday,

Alden and Arnold Nunn at the 2024 Nunn Brothers Bluegrass Festival - photo © G Nicholas Hancock The Nunn Brothers Bluegrass Festival may be North Carolina’s best kept bluegrass secret.  Held in the tiny community of Woodville, located east of Mount Airy

Loyle Dawson & Slick Quiver at the Alleghany County Fiddlers' Convention – photo © G Nicholas Hancock G. Nicholas Hancock was at the 2024 Alleghany County Fiddlers' Convention last weekend and braved the heat, the cold, the rain, and a thrown

"We've been hot, cold, and rained on," said a contestant at the 28th Alleghany County Fiddlers' Convention this past Saturday in Sparta, NC. Although the weather may not have been ideal, a large number of musicians, bands, and spectators turned

Camper band at the ETSU Bluegrass Summer Camp - photo © G Nicholas Hancock The first ever East Tennessee State University (ETSU) Bluegrass Summer Camp, held July 8-12 on the campus of the university in Johnson City, TN, was deemed a

Last Friday evening (July 12), the small, approximately 100x80 foot park in downtown Erwin, TN, known as The Gathering Place, overflowed with local townspeople and quite a few musicians from both near and far. Lincoln Hensley, banjo player and leader

Highway sign at the 2024 Grayson County Fiddlers' Convention - photo © G Nicholas Hancock G. Nicholas Hancock spent the weekend in Elk Creek, VA to cover the 55th Grayson County Old-time and Bluegrass Fiddlers' Convention, sponsored by the Elk Creek Volunteer

Common Ground, 1st Place Bluegrass Band at the 2024 GraysonCounty Fiddlers' Convention - photo © G Nicholas Hancock Counting both adult and youth contestants, approximately 200 acoustic instrument pickers, folksong singers, and flatfoot dancers from as far away as Georgia and

Calvary's Chosen, 1st Place Bluegrass Gospel Band at Abingdon Fiddlers' – photo © G Nicholas Hancock One hundred seventeen contestants braved the heatwave to compete in the 3rd Abingdon Fiddlers’ Convention this past Friday through Sunday at the Washington County Fairgrounds