Fiddle playing often pushes the boundaries of musical genres. Although music fans naturally gravitate to one genre or another, there are some classic, traditional, and contemporary fiddle songs every ...

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with San Antonio-based fiddle player Belen Escobedo about the old-style barn dance music her grandfather taught her to play. Escobedo says when she plays the old songs ...

Violinist Tessa Lark takes flight in Sky, a violin concerto written just for her by Michael Torke. Inspired by her Kentucky roots, Torke weaves a touch of Bluegrass into the classical form, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Singing Strings Studio will present a program of violin and fiddle duets at 3 p.m. Sunday, March ...

Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck have announced the imminent release of their new collaborative album, The Fiddle and the Drum, which marries odes to Appalachian bluegrass and folk tendencies, due May 29 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The ornately decorated fiddle belonged to the dance master who taught Robert Burns. At Carnegie, it will cap “Scotland’s Hoolie in New York.” Duncan Chisholm with the fiddle ...