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 Nicola Benedetti brings uplifting virtuosity and seductive romance to ‘café-appropriate’ arrangements for violin, ...

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 ...

We’d be remiss if we didn’t start with “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” by the Charlie Daniels Band. After all, the country/Southern rock song with bluegrass tones became a classic almost as soon as ...

Actress Sakina Jaffrey, a Nyack resident, is understandably proud of her father, Sanford Allen, who, at age 23, became the first full-time African-American musician to join the New York Philharmonic.

(CBS News) As I'm known to do from time to time, I'm going to go ahead and break out a music post separate from my Friday music round-up. Why you ask? I don't know. Because I feel the need for a ...

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 ...

The Shetland Islands, a cluster of rocks in the North Sea, is an unusual place. Wealthy from offshore oil, Shetlanders are yet wedded to ancient traditions. And they play the fiddle like no one else.

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, ...

The Old Tyme Fiddlers will be the first to play on Sunday afternoon at the Fall Fiddle Festival in Beach Lake. Organizer Steve Jacobi expects other participants will bring bluegrass, Celtic, western ...

In my quest to be more American than Americans, I wanted to know more than American music [and in 1972] I was staying with a ...

Escobedo says when she plays the old songs nowadays, it makes men cry because they remember how their fathers taught them, too. This Father's Day, listen to old-time Tejano fiddle music by Belen ...