Among the big GRAMMY nominees this year there's one stand out: the fiddle. Or the violin if you're not feeling all that country. From Album of the Year nominees Mumford & Sons, fun. and Jack White to ...

A good fiddle part elevates a song: It can take a ballad from mediocre to weepy and a bluegrass jig from ho-hum to barn-burning. It's one of the most prominent instruments in country music, and it's a ...

It’s no secret that Kane Brown loves both old-school and contemporary country. Now, with his new song, “Fiddle in the Band,” he weaves the two worlds together artfully with the prominent titular ...

Each Wednesday and Sunday evening at 8 p.m. \“Live At The Linda\” brings you some of the best musical acts to grace the stage at The Linda - WAMC's Performing Arts Studio. This week, we celebrate the ...

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 ...

MANSFIELD – Melanie Rodgers, 70, started playing the violin in the Mansfield Symphony during her time as a student at Mansfield Senior High School. Rodgers, who now plays the fiddle with the ...

If it isn't the fact they merge folk with punk and thrash metal, then it might be the way they came together. They formed when Jess Randall (fiddle) required musicians for a folk album she was working ...

On Rise, their second CD, the Crooked Fiddle Band continue their musical manifesto, rallying around the incendiary fiddle of Jess Randall to make music that will make grandmas mosh, punks tango and ...

The Quebe Sisters, all in their 20s, have been playing the fiddle for over a decade. For a twenty-something to have that much consistent experience on an instrument is unique, but for three siblings ...

The Rayo Brothers had only been playing about two years when they decided a fiddler was needed in their Americana band. Some band members had done side gigs with Sarah Jayde Williams, granddaughter of ...