Los Angeles Times

For MacMaster, It’s More Than Fiddlin’ Around

Natalie MacMaster has the look of a pop star: blond, slender, vivacious and outgoing. Her stage performances are whirling flashes of music and movement, her thick mane of hair flying as she whips her ...
Times Argus

Keeping Vermont-style fiddling alive

“I’m a dance fiddler, not a concert fiddler,” says Cabot farmer and fiddler David Carpenter. It’s a mid-October day, Dingo the dog is vying for his attention, the sun is warm. Carpenter is walking ...
Newsweek

Music: Reviving the Black Banjo Tradition

Up on stage at New York's annual River to River summer music festival, a four-piece string band is tearing through the song "Sourwood Mountain." The fiddle wails, the banjo frails and a few members of ...
The Globe and Mail

Fiddler Buddy MacMaster brought Cape Breton style to world stage

Hugh Allan "Buddy" MacMaster rightly earned his title as the dean of Cape Breton fiddlers. From his early boyhood days spent imitating the fiddle style by rubbing two sticks together, to the countless ...
The Irish Times

And then there were three

The Donegal fiddle style – fiery pacing, assertive bowing patterns and a fondness for ‘playing the octave’ – is now in the hands… The Donegal fiddle style – fiery pacing, assertive bowing patterns and ...
Independent.ie

Flutes and fiddles at The Glens Centre

Peter Horan is from Killavil, Co. Sligo, and is a veteran of Irish traditional music. Growing up in fiddle country meant that his flute style was largely free of the influence of other players, and he ...
Independent Record

Language of fiddle is learned by listening

POTLATCH, Idaho (AP) — Violin is all in the accuracy. Fiddling, says Mabel Vogt, is all in the accent. "The geography of where someone has lived is in their fiddling," says Vogt, a longtime ...
The Irish Times

Fiddle is his middle name

With his first solo album, 'Journeyman', fiddle player Gerry O'Connor is finally stepping into the glare of the spotlight, writes Siobhán Long Sligo flute players, Kerry box players and Donegal ...
Irish Central

Riverdance’s New Jersey fiddle player wows Dublin audience

Irish American child prodigy, 17-year-old Haley Richardson’s performance shines during the summer run of the iconic Irish dance show ahead of its 25th anniversary At the age of three Haley Richardson, ...
Times Argus

Irish fiddle & guitar: Two chances to hear it done right

Two of the best at Irish fiddling and guitar accompaniment, Liz Carroll and John Doyle, are performing on Monday, Aug. 28, at Higher Ground in South Burlington and Tuesday, Aug. 29, at Middle Earth ...
The Scotsman

Tom Hughes’ music to raise profile of Borders fiddle heritage

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