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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jourdan Thibodeaux is a born storyteller. Fluent in Cajun French with an accent as sugary as Steen’s cane syrup, Thibodeaux is 32 going on 72, making his stories even more endearing. Thibodeaux was a ...

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 ...

The countdown is on to the Gathering festival in the INEC and this year's event will certainly be a special gathering for local fiddle group 'Fiddleheads' who will launch their first CD 'And The ...

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.

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 ...