SYMPATHETIC STRINGS highlights the fiddle makers, musicians, dancers and apprentices who have formed an ardent, close-knit community of folk tradition practice around Norway’s beloved national ...

ST. LANDRY PARISH — Tom Pierce, the owner of Tom's Fiddle and Bow in Arnaudville Louisiana, runs a business rooted in a deep love for fiddles and the music. "At the basis of it, I have a shop where I ...

The Shetland Islands, a cluster of rocks in the North Sea, is an unusual place. Wealthy from offshore oil, Shetlanders are yet wedded to ancient traditions. And they play the fiddle like no one else.

It's a variation on the Pied Piper story, only these musicians are playing the violin and leading their followers to an imaginary meeting ground inhabited by Itzhak Perlman, Jean-Luc Ponty and Vassar ...

Spider silk is turning out to be a remarkably versatile material. Aside from having a higher heat conductivity than any other organic matter and proteins for inserting genes into cells, strings from a ...

Steven Reineke will lead the strings-only concert with Houston Symphony. Credit: Photo by Bertuzzi Photography It don’t mean a thing, if it ain’t got those strings. Houston Symphony will present ...

After a string of 36 years, the Cloverdale Old Time Fiddle Festival is being cancelled, a victim of the economy and the weather that typically accompanies the January event. The festival, a fundraiser ...