American fiddle-playing began with the early European settlers, who found that the small viol family of instruments were more portable and rugged than...
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A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including classical...
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The fiddle is one of the most important instruments in the traditional repertoire of Irish traditional music. The fiddle itself is identical to the violin...
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A Hardanger fiddle (Norwegian: hardingfele) is a traditional stringed instrument considered to be the national instrument of Norway. In modern designs...
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The Cat and the Fiddle may refer to: "Hey Diddle Diddle" or "The Cat and the Fiddle", a nursery rhyme The Cat and the Fiddle (musical), a 1931 Broadway...
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Joy" is a fiddle tune, classified as a reel or country dance. It is popular in the American fiddle canon, in which it is touted as "an American classic"...
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Apache fiddle, which has few makers remaining". Albuquerque Journal. Retrieved 24 October 2017. American Indian art magazine Published by American Indian...
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Ficus lyrata (redirect from Fiddle-leaved Fig)
Ficus lyrata, commonly known as the fiddle-leaf fig, banjo fig, fiddle-leaved fig tree, lyre leaf fig tree, or lyre-leaved fig tree, is a species of plant...
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Appalachian music (category American styles of music)
part of the American folk music revival of the 1960s. Instruments typically used to perform Appalachian music include the banjo, American fiddle, fretted...
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Cajun fiddle music is a part of the American fiddle music canon. It is derived from the music of southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas, as well as sharing...
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Brittany Haas (category American bluegrass fiddlers)
Brittany Caroline Haas (born 1987) is an American fiddle player, who also sings and plays the banjo. She is a member of the Boston-based alternative bluegrass...
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(also spelled old-time or oldtime) fiddle is the style of American fiddling found in old-time music. Old time fiddle tunes are derived from European folk...
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important part of the American folk music revival. Instruments typically used to perform Appalachian music include the banjo, American fiddle, fretted dulcimer...
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Fiddle may refer to: Second Fiddle (1923 film), an American silent comedy-drama Second Fiddle (1939 film), an American musical romance Second Fiddle (1957...
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The Fiddle Concerto is an album by American musician Mark O'Connor. It contains two pieces written by O'Connor, the first of which is a violin concerto...
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Old-time music (category American folk music)
played on acoustic instruments, generally centering on a combination of fiddle (see old time fiddling) and plucked string instruments, most often the banjo...
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Nicky Sanders (category American fiddlers)
Nicky Sanders is a Grammy Award-winning, American fiddle player specializing in Bluegrass music. He is best known for his work with the band Steep Canyon...
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Mark O'Connor (category 20th-century American classical composers)
Mark O'Connor (born August 5, 1961) is an American fiddle player, composer, guitarist, and mandolinist whose music combines bluegrass, country, jazz and...
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On the Fiddle (U.S. titles Operation Snafu and Operation War Head) is a 1961 British comedy film directed by Cyril Frankel and starring Sean Connery, Alfred...
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Alan Jabbour (category American folklorists)
String Quartet. While a graduate student, he became interested in American fiddle styles and traveled in North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia...
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Doug Kershaw (category 20th-century American musicians)
Douglas James Kershaw (born January 24, 1936) is an American fiddle player, singer and songwriter from Louisiana. Active since 1948, he began his career...
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Byron Berline (category 20th-century American musicians)
Douglas Berline (July 6, 1944 – July 10, 2021) was an American fiddle player who played many American music styles, including old time, ragtime, bluegrass...
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"The Fiddle and the Drum" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell; it was first recorded by Mitchell on her 1969 album Clouds. It was one...
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Peter Stampfel (category American folk musicians)
Peter Stampfel (born October 29, 1938, in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin) is an American fiddle player, old-time musician, and singer-songwriter. Stampfel is best...
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Bluegrass fiddling is a distinctive style of American fiddle playing which is characterized by bold, bluesy improvisation, off-beat "chopping", and sophisticated...
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Folk music (section North America)
important part of the American folk music revival. Instruments typically used to perform Appalachian music include the banjo, American fiddle, fretted dulcimer...
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500 Miles (category American folk songs)
Miles" (Roud 4959), which may itself have origins in the Southern American fiddle tunes "Reuben's Train" and "Train 45". Johnny Cash is known to have...
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Eck Robertson (category American country fiddlers)
Delaney, Arkansas, died February 15, 1975, in Borger, Texas) was an American fiddle player, mostly known for commercially recording the first country music...
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Canadian fiddle is the aggregate body of tunes, styles and musicians engaging the traditional folk music of Canada on the fiddle. It is an integral extension...
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The Battle of New Orleans (category American patriotic songs)
into the Grammy Hall of Fame. The melody is based on a well-known American fiddle tune "The 8th of January," which was the date of the Battle of New...
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