“Just be sure you spell my uncle’s name right,” my wife Linda admonished me.”It’s ‘Ervin’ with a ‘V’, not ‘Erwin.’ ” Of course I would. After all, Uncle Ervin — with a V —was the composer of “The ...

We know that Ervin T. Rouse never rode the train he wrote about. In fact, there's a chance he never saw the train at all. Yet the fiddle tune he wrote, "The Orange Blossom Special," has become a ...

It’s time to bring out holiday traditions of all sorts, including our newsroom neighbor Keith’s venerable Hanukkah garland — a whirl of tinsel stars that bedecks his computer every year. At the ...

If you want to catapult multiculturalism to its furthest parameters, look no further than Orange Blossom. This Franco-Arabic collective is led by percussionist/drummer Carlos Robles Arenas, a native ...

"Old Man River" Improvisations on the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto/"Georgia on My Mind" "Christmas Time Is Here" "Amazing Grace" "Orange Blossom Special" The name of the West Virginia-based duo ...

Famous fiddle tune “The Orange Blossom Special” is to many bluegrass musicians as Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird” is to many rockers. Famous fiddler Michael Cleveland won’t turn up his nose at an “Orange ...

There’s Appalachian, Cajun, Southern Plains and Americana among the varying styles of the United States’ homegrown folk and country music. But Florida-born-and-raised Van Plating has added another to ...