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Fairhope-based concert violinist and fiddler Tom Morley has released a new book, 'Learn to Play Irish Trad Fiddle,' which combines his love of playing Irish traditional music with his decades of ...
Frank Ferrel, widely regarded as a leading authority on North American traditional fiddle music, will perform on fiddle at the Oasis of Music beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 16, at ...
Like other traditional fiddle tunes, “Cotton-Eyed Joe” often features guitar, banjo, and other instrumentation. A 1967 instrumental recording is said to have inspired a polka dance.
Wales has a long tradition of fiddle playing and its music was popular with the great Romany familes of Wales. Three people who were renowned for playing both harp and fiddles were Cornelius ...
CHAMPAIGN – Garry Harrison and the New Mules, who specialize in the traditional music of Illinois, will offer fiddle and banjo and clogging workshops on Saturday at Techline and the ...
Jacie Sites doesn’t just play the fiddle — she commands it, dazzling listeners with her speed, skill and love for traditional music.
EAST GRAND FORKS — Jeanne O’Neil, co-founder of North Country Fiddle and Dance, isn’t worried about the traditional songs and dances her organization helps put together going away anytime ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va.—Danny Knicely is new to this year’s Upper Potomac Fiddle Retreat, and he’s looking forward to it.“They get some folks from out of town, types of fiddle music that aren ...
In the mid 1980s, Ryals opened a music shop in Burleson and planned to teach a variety of music. But she found a niche market in fiddling and soon started the old-time fiddle orchestra, which has ...
Gaelynn Lea is transforming our cultural understanding of who can be a musician. A congenital disability called osteogenesis imperfecta caused her bones to break more than 40 times while she was ...
Frank Ferrel, widely regarded as a leading authority on North American traditional fiddle music, will perform on fiddle at the Oasis of Music beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 16, at ...