As she was teaching as at elementary school in a rural Louisiana town in 2000, former Winchester resident Anya Schoenegge Burgess never imagined she’d be nominated for a Grammy Award. A lifelong music ...

This is American Routes, down by the riverside, live at the New Orleans Jazz Market. Our guests this hour are the Doucet brothers. Fiddler Michael is a National Heritage Fellow, a person who years ago ...

I had lots of questions when I first met Anya Burgess almost two decades ago. Besides how to pronounce her maiden name of Schonegge, I asked, “What’s a luthier?” Burgess explained that a luthier makes ...

It's a familiar tune: Location. Location. Location. And for SOLA Violins, that familiar refrain and more is why Anya Burgess moved her business from Arnaudville to the Gordon Hotel in the heart of ...

A 4-year-old Amanda Shaw got the first glimpse of her future career while watching an orchestra perform on television. “When they showed the violin, it was love at first sight,” Shaw says. “I turned ...