It's a variation on the Pied Piper story, only these musicians are playing the violin and leading their followers to an imaginary meeting ground inhabited by Itzhak Perlman, Jean-Luc Ponty and Vassar ...

Tommy Jarrell and Fred Cockerham Cockerham’s fretless banjo is also in the collection of the National Museum of American History In an on-going series, ATM will bring you the occasional post from a ...

What if we tell you that fiddle and violin, despite having similar physical appearances, are actually played differently? Fiddle and violin are basically the same musical instruments that refer to the ...

Chattanooga Times Free Press entertainment reporter Casey Phillips spoke with Grammy Award-winning violin/fiddle virtuoso Mark O'Connor about the rewards and challenges of compositions, developing an ...

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 ...

To you and me, the violin and fiddle are basically the same thing. However in the classical music world, ASU alumnus Taylor Morris is considered a radical for combining the two worlds into his work ...

Darol Anger grips his bow loosely, wrist bent, and smacks it against the strings of his fiddle. The resulting sound, a small crunch, is like the crackle of a very tiny drum. “You can get some nice ...

SYMPATHETIC STRINGS highlights the fiddle makers, musicians, dancers and apprentices who have formed an ardent, close-knit community of folk tradition practice around Norway’s beloved national ...

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 neighbor remark that they're feeling "fit as a fiddle." Zenas ...