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 ...

Joanna Ridgway, managing director and head of the southwest region for Santander Bank, began playing classical violin at the age of 3. But after graduating from Rhodes College with a business ...

Within hours of arriving at Fiddle Camp in Stillwater this week, students were learning the art of improvising from two masters. Bluegrass, explained Brian Wicklund and Joe Walsh, is all about ...

Lee Anne Welch’s musical journey began 35 years ago when her parents enrolled her in violin lessons. The Saratoga native dreamed of playing in a string quartet, but life had different plans for her.

GODFREY — Nationally renowned bluegrass band Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper brings their award-winning music to the Riverbend this Saturday. The band’s namesake and fiddle virtuoso, Michael ...

Nathan Smith of Toronto’s modern bluegrass brotherhood The Barrel Boys likes “nerding out” to fiddle music including Nashville duo Ten String Symphony. “I like stuff that is quite stripped down that ...