Rayna Gellert plays her great-grandfather’s fiddle—the same one he was playing in 1917 when, as a Hungarian orchestral musician aboard an ocean liner, he wowed the U.S. Ambassador with a rendition of ...

Fiddlers in the woods: Musicians, dancers and listeners Gather each year, with the idyllic scenery of the Warren Wilson College campus as the background. Photos courtesy of Jim Magill The Swannanoa ...

REGROUP THERAPY: “Because we don’t do it all the time, it’s just fun,” fiddle player Rayna Gellert, second from right, says of reuniting with old-time string band Uncle Earl. “We’re doing this purely ...

Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2003 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. Permission to publish materials from the collection ...

You don’t hear it often, but Rayna Gellert said it during a recent interview: “I find myself thinking, ‘Damn, I wish I didn’t miss the ’70s.’ ” Gellert, however, was not pining for disco, feathered ...