WOOSTER – The fiddle contest at the Wayne County Fair featured an abundance of talented players of a wide range of ages, from a trio of competitors 12 and under, to a quartet of senior division ...

CLAREMORE -- As a youngster growing up east of Locust Grove, Sam O'Field remembers going out to the bean fields to do a day's picking to make extra money. That was a few years before he picked up a ...

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 ...

Fiddle players are often at the center of bluegrass music, taking on the role of the lead instrument. Before Bill Monroe became the so-called Father of Bluegrass, he was influenced by other musicians ...

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There was no sleeping on a recent flight from Ireland to the Canary Islands, off the coast of Africa. You never know what's going to happen up there in the air, and on this flight, folks were quite ...

It’s true that most violin players start studying the instrument when they’re young—sometimes before they’ve even started school. (It’s admittedly pretty amazing to see a preschooler playing a ...