At first glance, the fiddle looks a lot like a violin. The biggest difference is the piece that holds the strings together. "The bridge itself can be a little bit flatter, so you can play multiple ...

Traditional Irish fiddle player Kate Rose performs alongside world-class guitarist Armand Ramirez as Wild World Irish Fiddle -- a duo bending perceptions and putting their own spin on Irish fiddle ...

There was no sleeping on a recent flight from Ireland to the Canary Islands, off the coast of Africa. You never know what's going to happen up there in the air, and on this flight, folks were quite ...

SHEFFIELD — Growing up in London, fiddle player Kevin Burke received the best education in Irish traditional music that anyone could ask for. When Burke came of age in the 1960s, the influx of Irish ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was a first class flight to funkytown. A Ryanair flight resembled a folk concert at 30,000 feet after an Irish musician whipped ...

Irish fiddler Tony DeMarco and percussive dancer Siobhán Butler are a groundbreaking duo in the American world of Irish song and dance.“This is one of the first American duos that are combining these ...

World Fiddle Day is observed every year on the third Saturday of May to celebrate the timeless charm of fiddle music and the ...

Two of the best at Irish fiddling and guitar accompaniment, Liz Carroll and John Doyle, are performing on Monday, Aug. 28, at Higher Ground in South Burlington and Tuesday, Aug. 29, at Middle Earth ...

Lance Daly’s new film, "Trad", blends traditional Irish music, youthful rebellion, and a cross-country journey through ...

Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, late Professor of Irish Studies at Boston College, was a famed composer, pianist, and scholar of traditional Irish music. He channeled his passion into the founding of the ...