For Mia x Ally, an instrumental duo performing at Brighton Music Hall on Jan. 5, it all started with a sea shanty. Mia Asano, a 2022 Berklee of College of Music graduate, had been posting TikTok ...

As a 12-year-old growing up in the Bronx in New York City, Eileen Ivers entertained the neighborhood folks with her fiddle. Her teacher, Irish fiddler Martin Mulvhill, put together a ceili band of the ...

An electric violin doesn’t just offer a musician a whole new world of sounds and dynamics, it can also be unplugged to allow for silent practicing. The best model is crafted to have the same feel as ...

It all started for me when I had a dream in 8th grade that I was on stage in front of thousands of people playing the violin. I acted upon that dream and began to play my ninth-grade year in high ...

Whether you’re listening to Patti Smith’s cover of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” or versions of Jethro Tull’s “Locomotive Breath,” it’s not all that uncommon to hear fiddle, especially in later versions ...

It's all Judy Hyman can do to keep her instruments straight. There's the acoustic fiddle she uses when she performs with the Horse Flies, a band she helped found in the late 1970s. She switches to an ...

Any Southern native, or transplant for that matter, has a general idea of what a fiddle is. You've no doubt heard your mama or your neighbor remark that they're feeling "fit as a fiddle." Zenas ...

The moment you step into the dance hall, the sound envelops you. A fiddle erupts; an electric guitar wails; a keyboard drives out steady chords. Under colorful paper decorations dangling from the ...

PENDLETON — Jacie Sites doesn’t just play the fiddle — she commands it, dazzling listeners with her speed, skill and love for traditional music. The renowned fiddler took first place June 19 in the ...

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 ...