It’s a lesson the industry has been learning for about a decade now: If you can’t sell music, sell something else. (Hey, it beats complaining about “kids today” and their utter disrespect for copyright.)

From soup cans to sonic Buddhas, there is life beyond the stream. Here are 10 of our favorites. (Feel free to add your own suggestions below.)

Wired Magazine
By Eliot Van Buskirk
July 13, 2009
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I spent a week at the Festival of American Fiddletunes in Port Townsend, WA. There were several styles represented; Cajun, Swing, Tejano, Québecois, New England Contradance, American Old Time, and my own style, Canadian Old Time.

It was so wonderful being around so many different pockets of fiddle music.

It's not all about competition, and playing 3 tunes technically perfect and impressing 3 judges. It's about heart. And it's about making people smile, and feel emotion, through playing music.… Continue

Thanks for posting them (ed: video) on your site (centrumfiddle.ning.org) and also for adding pertinent information such as names etc.

Yes...I will open an account to be able to post there. (ed: Steve when you open your account here add a comment on this blog post)

This was my first time at the event and I was so taken by everything that I will plan on making it an annual event.

I used to play a violin in junior high and high school many years ago.

Recently, I purchased a… Continue

JENNIFER JACKSON
July 2, 2009

PORT TOWNSEND -- Each year, Juan Reynoso travels thousands of miles from his home in Mexico to Port Townsend for one reason: to keep his music alive.

Reynoso, 90, is a national treasure of Mexico and a human repository of more than 1,000 sones and gustos, the folk music of his native Tierra Caliente, an isolated area of southwest Mexico.

Ironically, Reynoso's music only started to be apprecia… Continue

Twitter cell phone interview with teenage Port Angeles fiddlers Ryan (L) and Sam Langley.

Hmmmm. We will do better next time. Looks like we lost the connection before we got started.... Continue