What’s this inaugural Knoxville Stomp festival (May 5-8) all about? We’ll preview the weekend of history and music with two Knoxville bands making music so old it’s new gain. The Tennessee Stifflegs (Frank Bronson, fiddle/vocals; Thomas McNair, guitar/vocals; Nathan Black, banjo/lap steel; and Tom Cook, upright bass) recently wowed the crowd of the 47th annual Jubilee Festival with their youthful spin on the old-time fiddle tunes they grew up hearing their fathers and fathers’ fathers play.

Jubal, the duo of Taylor Kress and Bonnie Simmons, uses traditional string music as a base for rustic and haunting melodies and harmonies. http://www.jubaltune.com/