OSCEOLA — Award-winning fiddler and multi-instrumentalist Bill Gregg, of Trumansburg, will give a free concert of old time fiddle music Sunday, Sept. 4, from 2 to 5 p.m., at the North American Fiddlers’ Hall of Fame and Museum, 1121 Comins Road.

Renowned folk musician Joe Crookston will accompany Gregg at the concert. Crookston, who recently returned from a tour of Ireland, is a folk singer, guitarist, banjo player, and songwriter.

Gregg fell in love with Appalachian folk music at his grandmother’s knee. He studied piano and organ, but later developed a passion for American folk music and went on to master guitar, fiddle, autoharp, banjo, mandolin, and Appalachian dulcimer, as well as the lyrics to hundreds of traditional songs. The deepest influence on his fiddle style is the fiddling of his lifelong friend, Ray Robinson, who played for dances through much of the 20th century.

Gregg has performed at the New York State Fair, on TV’s “Bluegrass
Ramble,” and at folk and bluegrass festivals in over 50 years of entertaining. He has played at the Genesee Country Museum’s Fiddlers’ Fair for more than 30 years. In June, Gregg won second place in the National Autoharp Championship at the Mountain Laurel Autoharp Gathering.

Gregg teaches stringed instruments at the Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts and at his private studio, Harmonic Resources.