Baltimore Old Time Music Festival celebrates city’s long history of fiddle and banjo

A party by the Inner Harbor this weekend celebrates Charm City’s long tradition of tapping a foot to the fiddle and nodding in agreement with the banjo.

​The Baltimore Old Time Music Festival on Friday and Saturday at the Baltimore Museum of Industry is an acoustic celebration of music played before recordings. The loosely defined American genre lays ancient African and Celtic folk narratives over different forms of the same four or five strings.

“Old-time music is made for the living...