Violet Hensley, who has died at 109, was one of the last links to a bygone era of foot-stomping American folk music.

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 ...

Fiddle players are commonly thought of as players of folk, country, Celtic, and similar genres of music. The best players can use the instrument to elicit any number of emotions, from tender to ...

A good fiddle part elevates a song: It can take a ballad from mediocre to weepy and a bluegrass jig from ho-hum to barn-burning. It's one of the most prominent instruments in country music, and it's a ...

It's common practice for chart-topping Nashville songwriters to see their accomplishments celebrated with lawn signs in front of industry offices, but Jenee Fleenor arrived at Sound Emporium Studios ...

Tommy Jarrell and Fred Cockerham Cockerham’s fretless banjo is also in the collection of the National Museum of American History In an on-going series, ATM will bring you the occasional post from a ...

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 ...

Irish American child prodigy, 17-year-old Haley Richardson’s performance shines during the summer run of the iconic Irish dance show ahead of its 25th anniversary At the age of three Haley Richardson, ...

Michael Landon is best known for playing Charles Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie. One thing you likely remember from the series is that Landon’s character played the fiddle. Did Landon play the ...