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Common Ground on the Hill in the News.

Carroll County Times: Grammy winner Tom Chapin teaches songwriting in Westminster as part of Common Ground on the Hill

The Baltimore Sun: Common Ground on the Hill PHOTOS (July 3, 2023)

VoyageBaltimore: RisingStars - Walt Michael

FlightNetwork: North America's Best Festivals

KDHL Radio: See the Must-Drive Roads in Every State

Bluegrass Today: Common Ground on the Hill named Maryland's Newest Folklife Center

​Carroll County Times: Common Ground on the Hill named Maryland's Newest Folklife Center

Carroll County Times: Carroll County’s Common Ground on the Hill online this year, putting traditional arts in a digital space

Baltimore Magazine: Come Together: As folk traditions become endangered, one festival has been keeping them alive for 25 years, June 2019

Carroll County Times: Common Ground on the  Hill opens 25th year of 'conversation through the traditional arts', June 25, 2019

Brewgrass Chronicle: Dispatch from Common Ground’s bluegrass camp: Don’t you dare call it fantasy camp, July 12, 2019

​Bluegrass Today: Deer Creek Fiddlers' Convention set for 47th year, June 1, 2018

Bluegrass Today: Hot Pink House Trailer from Fink, Marxer & Gleaves, May 25, 2018

MSN.com "Must-drive roads in every state" Sept. 5, 2020

Carroll County Times, April 18, 2018: Common Ground on the Hill bringing Arabic music to Westminster

Carroll County Times, July 4, 2017: Common Ground on the Hill class examines changing the understanding of gender

Carroll County Times, July 3, 2017: Singing, storytelling a chance to find common ground

Carroll County Times, May 31, 2017: Fiddlers compete at Deer Creek Fiddlers' Convention

​Westminster Patch April 1, 2011

Robert H. Chambers Award

Common Ground at 2011 Folk Alliance Conference

Carroll County Times Dec. 6, 2010

Carroll Eagle Dec 12, 2010

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