Jonathan Chai started playing violin at age 4. “I was a very serious classical musician. Still am,” Chai says. Yet when Chai is spotted two Saturday afternoons a month in the circle of musicians ...

Fairhope-based concert violinist and fiddler Tom Morley has released a new book, “Learn to Play Irish Trad Fiddle,” which combines his love of playing Irish traditional music with his decades of ...

A violin played by an Irish musician in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy will go up for auction next month. The Hardanger violin, which features prominently throughout the three films, is set to fetch ...

Imagine the looks a classically trained Taiwanese-American violinist would get walking into an Irish pub in Ireland and saying she was there to play traditional Irish fiddle music. That didn’t quite ...

At first glance, the fiddle looks a lot like a violin. The biggest difference is the piece that holds the strings together. "The bridge itself can be a little bit flatter, so you can play multiple ...

The violin that called Tolkien’s hobbits to their quest and sounded the defence of Rohan against an orc army is to be auctioned next month. Owned and played by former All-Ireland champion fiddle ...

In the 18th century top musicians came from far afield to perform in Dublin, which was then in its Georgian heyday. Some liked the city so much that they settled, and of course, musicians need ...

On a quiet Monday night in an empty pub in North Beach, the fiddle of Brian Theriault can be heard crying from a far corner. It is just one instrument in a traditional Irish session that includes ...