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FlightNetwork: North America's Best Festivals

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" May 23, 2018 
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. 16, 2010
Carroll Eagle Dec 12, 2010
Winter Jam Classes from Cybergrass Dec 9, 2010
Laura Fuentes' Diary from Traditions Week One 2008

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          • Music: General Knowledge >
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