Irish-American fiddle star Eileen Ivers is one of the trailblazers, an incandescent player who’s created a turbocharged Afro-Celtic sound with her band Immigrant Soul.

But Varnado wasn’t deterred; his father was a fiddler. Four or five months later, Varnado walked into his father’s room and found him sitting on the side of the bed, playing the fiddle.

Detroit soul legend Amp Fiddler has died at 65, Faith Fanzine announced on Dec. 17. “‘Faith’ is saddened to hear that Amp Fiddler has passed away,” the London publication posted on X ...

Fiddler on the Roof review: ... Hits including If I Were A Rich Man, Sunrise/Sunset and Matchmaker rouse the soul. Fiddler on the Roof is playing at the Barbican Theatre until 19 July.

Jim Stewart, a bank employee who moonlighted as a fiddle player in a country band, realized in the late 1950s that he was never going to hit the big time as a musician. The next best thing, he ...

In the early 1960s, the Jewish American soul was tied in knots. On the one hand, Jews knew they were outsiders. Less than two decades had passed since the liberation of Jews from Nazi death camps.

His fiddle hiatus: "Elvis Presley came along. There were no fiddles in his music and everybody’s trying to imitate his sound. I already played guitar (so) I put the fiddle away for about 15 years.

Fiddler, who contributed heavily to funk, soul, hip-hop, and dance music, rose to prominence as a session musician and collaborator during his tenure with Parliament and Funkadelic.