WOOSTER – The fiddle contest at the Wayne County Fair featured an abundance of talented players of a wide range of ages, from a trio of competitors 12 and under, to a quartet of senior division ...

Tessie was more into green grass than bluegrass Saturday at the Old Time Fiddler's Picnic at Lancaster County Central Park. The 7-year-old Percheron/Paint was trailered to the park from Conestoga for ...

While any fiddler in Texas can play “Faded Love,” the versions at the Festival of Texas Fiddling, in Blanco, might sound as different as an owl does from a rooster. The styles could be Gulf Coast, ...

Long before downloadable MP3s, when music files consisted of wax-covered tubes played on a hand-cranked Victrola that only the wealthy could afford, people relied on live music exclusively for ...

"Conducting is not at all like playing first fiddle in a quartet," says Joel Smirnoff, who's done both enough time to know. He became the Juilliard String Quartet's first violinist (replacing founding ...

POTLATCH, Idaho (AP) — Violin is all in the accuracy. Fiddling, says Mabel Vogt, is all in the accent. "The geography of where someone has lived is in their fiddling," says Vogt, a longtime ...