A life-long dream of professionally performing music and touring has become reality for Eve Panning ’15, who has been selected to join the prestigious string group Barrage 8. A recent Hope College ...

If the violin seems like a staid instrument, played by stiff-backed classical musicians whose faces remain impassive even as their hands work magic, prepare to have your preconceptions shattered.

Barrage (n.) An overwhelming, concentrated outpouring, as of artillery or words. Or violins. Or, to be more accurate, fiddles. (What’s the difference between a violin and a fiddle? Nothing, except the ...