"I started playing violin when I was 4. I got super burned out [in middle school], so my violin teacher just taught me fiddle music for three years," Alexander says.

Playing the violin and/or fiddle is difficult and takes years of practice to master. Playing the violin while standing on your head or playing with your legs behind your ears takes a special kind ...

PopPop, Nora’s grandfather, was an enslaved man who played the fiddle for his enslaver, Thomas Marks. “He knew playing that fiddle kept him and his family alive, baby,” Nora tells Ray.

Part 1 | Part 2 This is Now I hate to confess this, but I've never been that keen on Stephane Grappelli 's playing, as masterful and brilliant as he assuredly was. ("He plays with an accent," ...

The technique, which has existed for about 50 years, took the fiddle-playing world by storm — spreading from North America, with a particularly strong scene in Boston, to Europe and Canada ...

I've been playing the fiddle about 16 years, starting out playing classical violin." Competition growing again Event coordinator Justin Wallace was a longtime judge before taking over the contest.

Gene read, until he was ready. But even then, he hedged his bets. “This is the Menards' fiddle,” Gene says, picking up a violin from its stand in the shop.

She first learned to play fiddle from her father Lloyd J. Warner, who was mostly self-taught and learned playing by ear. The 11th of 13 kids, she didn't start until age 10, but was immediately ...

They learned to play the violin through our program and built their own fiddles. (instrumental folk music) This is in Sentani, Indonesia in Papua Indonesia.

Born in Philadelphia of Italian immigrant parents, in or around 1903, Venuti is considered the father of jazz violin. Venuti relished Marx Brothers- like anarchic humor and was a legendary practical ...