BRATTLEBORO — Brought together 30 years ago by a common element of playing on a Robert M. Child's fiddle to perform traditional Celtic music together, the group Childsplay is now planning its final ...

At the beginning of the fourth cut on the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd's one and only fiddle album titled "Mountain Fiddler," he starts off the fiddle tune "Cripple Creek" by doing a recitation. In the ...

To hear Catherine Burnside talk about her ambitions, her dreams of stomping with the big dawgs, as they used to say on Martin, is almost spine-tingling. At only 23 years old, the native Houstonian ...

TWENTY years ago a busker playing the fiddle outside Markies in Aberdeen captivated a starry-eyed four-year-old. As the unknown musician rattled out tune after tune, little Erin Smith knew immediately ...

There are a few country songs that give the fiddle the spotlight. Revisit four of the most essential fiddle moments in country music.

We often think of traditional Scottish music performed in an ensemble with fiddle, pipes (either Highland or border style), a piano or perhaps a guitar or bouzouki and, on occasion, harp. But the ...

A former child prodigy and U.S. fiddle champion, Mark O’Connor is arguably the world’s most gifted bluegrass virtuoso. How else do you describe an artist who, at age 20, was already receiving gushing ...

The fiddle accompanied Lewis & Clark across the West. Fur trappers danced to it. Fiddle music followed the Métís as they sought a safe place south of the border, and they shared it with the Blackfeet.

ASPEN ” Petrolia, Calif., is the westernmost town in the continental U.S., and lies along the biggest stretch of undeveloped coastline in the Lower 48. An outpost of the notorious Humboldt County, ...