The International Violin Competition of Indianapolis' coming season will deliver the classical masterpieces audiences have come to expect. But across the fall of 2025 and first half of 2026, several ...

POPLAR BLUFF, MO-- Luke Medley is a master of the Bluegrass bass fiddle. He not only plays them, he makes them too. He's an architect of sorts, still working to design and build the perfect bass ...

MANSFIELD – Melanie Rodgers, 70, started playing the violin in the Mansfield Symphony during her time as a student at Mansfield Senior High School. Rodgers, who now plays the fiddle with the ...

When Natalie Padilla was just a sprite playing with her friends, her mother, who was on stage playing bluegrass with her fiddle, spotted Natalie with two sticks, copying her mother. Natalie doesn’t ...

There’s never been a better time to be young and rootsy. Today’s new crop of bluegrass and string-band musicians is younger and more accomplished than any batch of musicians since the teenage days of ...

MIDDLETOWN — The Buttonwood Tree performing arts center will be hosting two concerts this weekend, featuring a California-based violinist, and bluegrass band from Plainfield. For 25 years, Murphy has ...

Like everyone else in her Pittsburgh family, Sue Cunningham was raised playing classical music. But Cunningham, who was trained on violin and played in orchestras from the age of 12, began to see the ...

"I felt, in writing this piece, that there was an openness, or a kind of a renewed freshness, I had working with music materials, because I was working in a new form. It took out all the cobwebs in ...

Fans of bluegrass and old-time fiddle music will be in heaven this weekend in Tuscaloosa. The 2025 Fiddle Fest and Southeastern Fiddle Championship will be held Feb. 22 on the Martin Campus of Shelton ...

The O’Connor Band, featuring bluegrass fiddle legend Mark O’Connor at its helm, took home the Best Bluegrass Album Grammys trophy in 2017, for their album Coming Home. And with bluegrass music growing ...