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 soon. While ...

At first glance, the fiddle looks a lot like a violin. The biggest difference is the piece that holds the strings together. "The bridge itself can be a little bit flatter, so you can play multiple ...

Photos by Eric Engman, engman@newsminer.com Nov 17, 2013 Nov 17, 2013 Updated Jun 12, 2019 FAIRBANKS - From Nov. 6-9, the Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center came alive with the sounds of ...

Pat Cannon’s Foot & Fiddle Dance Company is a versatile ensemble of dancers and musicians who present American dance and music in creative new ways. Foot & Fiddle offers audiences a slice of Americana ...

Hundreds of people descended on the Chief David Salmon Tribal Hall in Fairbanks for the Athabascan Fiddle Festival in a celebration of community, culture, dance and music. Attendees danced and clapped ...

From playing gigs with her acoustic bluegrass band Masontown to serving as associate concertmaster of the Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra for six years, Padilla — also a classical violinist — remains ...

A Festival That Feels Like Home<br/>Music brings people together—neighbors, travelers, families, and friends. At the Glenns Ferry Fiddle & Folk Festival, you’re not just attending… you’re part of the ...

The annual Athabascan Fiddle Festival in Fairbanks had its first show 31 years ago, in 1983. Since then the festival has grown, and seen changes in the music, but is still thriving. The event is inter ...

We often think of traditional Scottish music performed in an ensemble with fiddle, pipes (either Highland or border style), a piano or perhaps a guitar or bouzouki and, on occasion, harp. But the ...

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, ...

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 ...