Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Stephanie Williams Dean For the Enterprise There’s a familiar quote: “Youth is ...

MANSFIELD – Melanie Rodgers, 70, started playing the violin in the Mansfield Symphony during her time as a student at Mansfield Senior High School. Rodgers, who now plays the fiddle with the ...

Jubilantly playing her fiddle, 16-year-old Alani Sugar entertained library patrons with guitarist Greg Fury, of Olney. “I love that she’s so young and enthusiastic,” said Kathy Martin, of Eldersburg. ...

JON C. LAKEY / SALISBURY POST Carrie Ezzell Webster and her 5-year-old son, Gabe, practice the fiddle in the main classroom of the school. Webster's dream of opening a local Folk Art School is ...

Fiddle players are often at the center of bluegrass music, taking on the role of the lead instrument. Before Bill Monroe became the so-called Father of Bluegrass, he was influenced by other musicians ...

Within hours of arriving at Fiddle Camp in Stillwater this week, students were learning the art of improvising from two masters. Bluegrass, explained Brian Wicklund and Joe Walsh, is all about ...

When Natalie Padilla was just a sprite playing with her friends, her mother, who was on stage playing bluegrass with her fiddle, spotted Natalie with two sticks, copying her mother. Natalie doesn’t ...

Nathan Smith of Toronto’s modern bluegrass brotherhood The Barrel Boys likes “nerding out” to fiddle music including Nashville duo Ten String Symphony. “I like stuff that is quite stripped down that ...