At the beginning of the fourth cut on the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd's one and only fiddle album titled "Mountain Fiddler," he starts off the fiddle tune "Cripple Creek" by doing a recitation. In the ...

Irish-American fiddler Liz Carroll joins guitarist John Doyle on her latest CD, In Play. Her music made it from the American Midwest into the canon of Irish traditional tunes. Carroll talks to Melissa ...

A former child prodigy and U.S. fiddle champion, Mark O’Connor is arguably the world’s most gifted bluegrass virtuoso. How else do you describe an artist who, at age 20, was already receiving gushing ...

TWENTY years ago a busker playing the fiddle outside Markies in Aberdeen captivated a starry-eyed four-year-old. As the unknown musician rattled out tune after tune, little Erin Smith knew immediately ...