Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd speaks with San Antonio-based fiddle player Belen Escobedo about the old-style barn dance music her grandfather taught her to play. Escobedo says when she plays the old songs ...

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 ...

Fiddle playing often pushes the boundaries of musical genres. Although music fans naturally gravitate to one genre or another, there are some classic, traditional, and contemporary fiddle songs every ...

During the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a distinctive form of fiddle music emerged in Texas. Known for idiosyncratic timing and phrasing, this style was commonly played with banjos or ...

The Ten Pound Fiddle, a folk music organization in Lansing, Michigan, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The organization's longevity is attributed to its dedicated volunteers, strong financial ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The ornately decorated fiddle belonged to the dance master who taught Robert Burns. At Carnegie, it will cap “Scotland’s Hoolie in New York.” Duncan Chisholm with the fiddle ...