SYMPATHETIC STRINGS highlights the fiddle makers, musicians, dancers and apprentices who have formed an ardent, close-knit community of folk tradition practice around Norway’s beloved national ...

Mathew M. Symons was interested in violins from a young age, but growing up in Henry County with Quaker parents it wasn't always easy to explore his passion.

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 ...

They make a one-string fiddle out of that, and they had one guy playing but then he passed away so the story talks about them going to that guy’s house and taking his fiddle and searching for ...

The violinist had long wanted a five-string fiddle, "I joked I had C-string envy," she says. But under the tutelage of Jon Cooper of Portland, Maine, she coaxed one from a block of wood, over a ...