FULSHEAR, TEXAS -- When McKenna Peterson plucks away at her fiddle, you can't help tapping your feet! The 10-year-old from Fulshear, Texas, first started violin lessons when she three-and-a-half years ...

While any fiddler in Texas can play “Faded Love,” the versions at the Festival of Texas Fiddling, in Blanco, might sound as different as an owl does from a rooster. The styles could be Gulf Coast, ...

American violinist Mark O'Connor has been a sideman for country stars and a soloist with symphony orchestras. Last week, he released his 36th album. But now, O'Connor has undertaken his biggest ...

“I’m a dance fiddler, not a concert fiddler,” says Cabot farmer and fiddler David Carpenter. It’s a mid-October day, Dingo the dog is vying for his attention, the sun is warm. Carpenter is walking ...

While striving to avoid clichés like the plague, there seems only one way to describe Danish jazz violinist Svend Asmussen: he is still going strong. At the age of 92, "the fiddling Viking" is ...

A father-son duo known as the "Fiddling Thomsons" do far more than fiddle. Ryan and Brennish Thomson play guitar, mandolin, piano, and flute, and sing and dance. They have performed worldwide and ...

Claire Sayers sure does fiddle around a lot. But far from wasting time, she is making a name for herself in the world of fiddling competitions. Earlier this August, the Duluth East graduate took first ...