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...

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...

Irish traditional music (also known as Irish trad, Irish folk music, and other variants) is a genre of folk music that developed in Ireland. In A History...

The Donegal fiddle tradition is one of the distinct fiddle traditions within Irish traditional music. The distinctness of the Donegal tradition developed...

Clare Traditional Irish Singers Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann Irish Traditional Music All Ireland Fleadh Results 2005 and 2006 "2007 Irish Seniors Preview"...

wrote in reference to Ireland ‘In every field a fiddle, and the girls footing untill they foam up’. Reference to the Irish fiddle can also be found in...

first known fiddler on American soil". Early influences were Irish, Scottish, and English fiddle styles, as well as the more upper-class traditions of classical...

University Press: New York, p. 301 "Irish Fiddle". Retrieved 22 May 2015. Lyth, D. Bowing. Styles in Irish Fiddle Playing. Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann...

Frankie Gavin is a fiddle player of traditional Irish music. Frankie Gavin was born in 1956 in Corrandulla, County Galway, from a musical family; his parents...

reels are also an important part of the repertoire of the fiddle traditions of Britain, Ireland and North America. In Scottish country dancing, the reel...

Gerry "Fiddle" O'Connor is born in Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland. Gerry is a traditional Irish fiddle player, and founding member of bands, Skylark and...

an Irish fiddle player and composer. He grew up in a very musical family, the son of the late fiddle player Ben Lennon and nephew of composer, fiddle player...

A Hardanger fiddle (Norwegian: hardingfele) is a traditional stringed instrument considered to be the national instrument of Norway. In modern designs...

1891 – 4 January 1945) was a virtuoso Irish fiddler from County Sligo, and a major exponent of the Sligo fiddle style. Michael Coleman was born in Knockgrania...

Seán Smyth is an Irish fiddle player from Galway. Smyth is an All-Ireland champion on both fiddle and whistle. He is known for his performances with the...

formed a duo with Clive Palmer, specializing in fiddle and banjo arrangements of traditional Scottish and Irish songs. Joe Boyd signed them to Elektra Records...

an Irish fiddle player. In a career that spanned over six decades, Canny was instrumental in popularizing Irish traditional music, both in Ireland and...

sort of Irished version of the Scottish strathspey). The Irish fiddle was said by one nationalist researcher to have been played in Ireland since the...

Moher (/ˈmʌhər/; Irish: Aillte an Mhothair) are sea cliffs located at the southwestern edge of the Burren region in County Clare, Ireland. They run for about...

is based on English, and Irish fiddle tunes as well as African American banjo tunes. Clogging primarily developed from Irish step dancing called Sean-nós...

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...

England to parents from County Sligo in Ireland. Inheriting a love of Irish music from his parents, he took up the fiddle at the age of eight, studied under...

Tommie Potts (1912–1988) was an Irish fiddle player and composer from Dublin who gained iconic status in traditional Irish music circles for his virtuoso...

and studied piano (taught by her father, a carpenter and musician) and Irish fiddle playing at a young age. She attended and graduated from the New England...

1982. pp. 613–614. ISBN 978-0-87395-580-5. Beisswenger, Drew (2016). Irish Fiddle Music from Counties Cork and Kerry. Mel Bay Publications. p. 83. ISBN 978-1-61911-012-0...

tradition of Scottish fiddle music has been better preserved in Cape Breton. While there is a similar tradition from the Irish-style fiddling, that style...

Máire Breatnach (Irish pronunciation: [ˈmˠɑːɾʲə ˈbʲɾʲan̪ˠəx]) is an Irish fiddle, violin and viola player. She also sings in Irish on some of her albums...

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January 1908 – 3 August 1998) was an Irish fiddle player who composed a number of tunes that remain popular within the Irish Traditional Music community. Crehan...

Bay's Complete Irish Fiddle Player. Mel Bay Publications, Inc.: Pacific, p. 76-80 Vallely, F. (1999). The Companion to Traditional Irish Music. New York...