Violinists, one is taught, are serious people who go to conservatories to learn music in disciplined fashion; fiddlers are carefree folk who play the tunes of the people without pedigreed instruction.

Much to the surprise of everyone else on the plane, he pulled out his violin and began to play. The flight fiddler, Sam Magee was accompanied by fellow musicians Nathan Carter and Matthew Crampsey.

She leaves a successful family business in New York, masters the art and creates a vibrant scene.

As one of the world's most prominent fiddlers, Eileen Ivers is often asked to explain what separates her instrument from a violin. She has an anecdote at the ready. "We did an outreach years ago ...

This is the amazing moment a spontaneous folk music performance broke out on a Ryanair flight from Belfast to Lanzarote with a passenger playing the fiddle and another doing an unplanned Riverdance.

The Irish Suite was first recorded by the composer on October 29, 1952, with Oscar Shumsky, violin soloist, in The Last Rose of Summer, in analog mono sound. The Irish Suite for orchestra has 6 ...

Were there standout traditional Irish albums and tracks for you? I am not a fiddle player by any means, but I do play violin and I was always extremely fascinated with Irish folk music, Celtic ...

Imagine the looks a classically trained Taiwanese-American violinist would get walking into an Irish pub in Ireland and saying she was there to play traditional Irish fiddle music. That didn’t ...