Musicians describe the thrill and pressure of performing on museum-grade instruments, whose real power lies as much in their ...

This year is the first at the 149-year-old Clark County Fair for the Washington State Fiddle Championship, which drew fiddle players from around the region to compete. Portland’s Eileen Walter watched ...

Whether you’re listening to Patti Smith’s cover of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” or versions of Jethro Tull’s “Locomotive Breath,” it’s not all that uncommon to hear fiddle, especially in later versions ...

We're not letting this instrument play second fiddle anymore. Any Southern native, or transplant for that matter, has a general idea of what a fiddle is. You've no doubt heard your mama or your ...

We’d be remiss if we didn’t start with “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” by the Charlie Daniels Band. After all, the country/Southern rock song with bluegrass tones became a classic almost as soon as ...

When Darol Anger visits Colorado, it’s usually for big-name festivals or to jam with Yonder Mountain String Band. This time, it’s intimate. Anger, a founding member of The David Grisman Quintet, which ...

Multiple stringed instrument players and musical performers from across the country came together to downtown Owensboro this weekend, playing the likes of banjo, guitar and mandolin tunes during the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WOOSTER – The fiddle contest at the Wayne County Fair featured an abundance of talented players of a wide range of ages, from a ...

Gabriel Dubreuil’s history with Festival du Bois is a long one, with his earliest memories not just about the music but instead the overall vibe. Raised in a proudly Francophone family on the West ...

Back and forth, their bows glide across violin strings; hands noodle over fingerboards. But for all the effort, the students can't quite keep the rhythm. "I can tell we've had two weeks off. That was ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Geoff White is a fiddle player who lives and plays in and around Roanoke. White plays in four bands, featuring Celtic, country, and Appalachian fiddle music. Recently, he opened ...