Forty-five years ago, as a freshman in college, Cal Meineke was poking around a music department storage room and came across a rare Tyrolean violin made in the 17th century by the German Matthias ...

A national fiddle champion at age 14, Seattle’s Mark O’Connor has maintained a frenetic pace as a composer and performer: a Nashville sessionman who played on more than 450 recordings during the 1980s ...

Marking the first public concert at the museum, the Fiddle & Fern Ensemble will present an evening of folk-inspired music, drawing inspiration from the GRAMMY-nominated group Danish String Quartet.

Considering jazz is an art form that mostly makes it up as it goes along, it's ironically appropriate that printed records—i.e., data—from the days of its birth are decidedly sparse. We know, at least ...

At Geoffrey J. Seitz, Violinmaker, the eponymous violin shop in Holly Hills, string instruments crowd every corner. This is no carefully curated showroom. It’s more like a teenager’s bedroom, ...

Celebrate World Fiddle Day with String Fever host Barb Heller and co-host Gretchen Koehler with a jam session next Thursday, May 15th from 3 to 5 only on NCPR! This year they'll also be joined in ...

When Bob Dylan sang that "he who isn't busy being born is busy dying" on his epochal 1965 album "Bringing It All Back Home," he could have been talking about the precarious dynamic that either keeps a ...