By Katelyn Aluise, The Lincoln Journal
When local artist Tim Bing was growing up with his brothers, Mike and Dave, just outside of Huntington, family and friends would often get together in Wayne County and listen to the “old timers” play their music.
“And with them came some of the musicians from around the East Lynn-Beech Fork area and down in there, and they started having chicken roasts. And they would gather up and have a big time underneath a rock cliff somewhere, or in the pine grove, what we called it, where the Bing’s first hit Wayne County. And we got interested in music when they’d bring the old-timers around,” he said.
So the brothers started off playing bluegrass and eventually learned Scot-Irish jigs and other old time music, and they’ve been performing as the Bing Brothers Band for about 50 years.
“We’re the old-timers now,” Bing said.
Now, the brothers — Tim on his banjo, Mike on his mandolin and Dave on the fiddle — teach their music to other aspiring musicians at Allegheny Echoes, a music workshop during the last week of June where other top musicians come to teach how to play the fiddle, banjo, bass, guitar, mandolin and other skills.
