When the fiddle appears in a country song, it is undeniably the loudest and most piercing instrument on the track. It can whine, it can hiss, it can do many things the guitar can and cannot. One might ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peter Xiong / EyeEm / Getty Images Any Southern native, or transplant for that matter, has a general idea of what a fiddle is. You ...

Howard Marshall visited KBIA studios with his new book Keep It Old-Time: Fiddle Music in Missouri from the 1960s Folk Music Revival to the Present. Howard Marshall is an author, a fiddler and a writer ...

The moment you step into the dance hall, the sound envelops you. A fiddle erupts; an electric guitar wails; a keyboard drives out steady chords. Under colorful paper decorations dangling from the ...

Singer, songwriter and fiddle player Amanda Shires still remembers the moment she fell in love with the fiddle. She'd been learning to play classical music on the violin at school when her music ...

The sound of bluegrass music filled the air Saturday during the Fiddle Fest and Southeastern Fiddle Championship at Shelton State Community College. The festival featured arts, crafts, food vendors, a ...

The Ten Pound Fiddle, a folk music organization in Lansing, Michigan, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The organization's longevity is attributed to its dedicated volunteers, strong financial ...

Jenee Fleenor is one of the busiest fiddler players in Nashville. When she’s not touring with Blake Shelton (she’s been his fiddle player for the past eight years), she’s usually in the recording ...

It's a musical tradition in Hamburg that dates back decades, where hundreds of students show off their talents on string instruments at Fiddle Fest.

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