Trails of Rosin Dust / Episode 5: The Wild Wild West
Through the Mojave Desert to the Pacific coast, fiddlers reach the edge of the American soundscape where global influences, jam culture, and tradition converge, opening the music into its next […]
Trails of Rosin Dust / Episode 4: Texas & the Southwestern Round Up
Across the wide-open Southwest, fiddlers carry a sound shaped by dance halls, rodeos, Mexican mariachi and generations of contests, where traditions collide and musical showdowns push the fiddle to its […]
Trails of Rosin Dust / Episode 3: Yellow Roads & Trails of Tears
Tucked within the hills of the Ozarks, Appalachian and French frontier fiddle traditions merged with Native rhythms and African syncopation, our third film features fiddlers who carry forward a jazzed-up […]
Trails of Rosin Dust / Episode 1: Appalachian Dawn
In the Appalachian Mountains, fiddlers carry forward a centuries-old sound born from the meeting of unlikely traditions, setting the groundwork for what would become America’s musical identity. Before radio. Before […]
Trails of Rosin Dust / Episode 2: Bluegrass & the River of Blues
Set in the river valleys where blues and bluegrass share a common origin, our second film of the series follows master fiddlers from the Bluegrass region whose music reveals a […]
