Click Here to Read: A Place Among the Fiddlers: In a southwest Virginia fairground, thousands of musicians gather every August to keep a centuries-old tradition from flickering out by David Alm on the Longreads website on October 1, 2026.
Jamming around the grounds at the 2012 Galax Old Fiddlers’ Convention in Galax, Virginia on August 11, 2012. Image: Eli Christman from Richmond, VA, USA Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
