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 ...

The Millstreet team after their win over St. Peter's in the Rebel Óg North Cork Under-13 Football League Final at Kiskeam. Credit: Photo by John Tarrant THE Millstreet Strings Fiddle Group are taking ...

Spider silk is turning out to be a remarkably versatile material. Aside from having a higher heat conductivity than any other organic matter and proteins for inserting genes into cells, strings from a ...

When Tadas Maksimovas decided to part with his waist-length hair, he knew that he wanted to do something out of the ordinary with it. After growing it a decade - and becoming quite attached to his ...

It's a variation on the Pied Piper story, only these musicians are playing the violin and leading their followers to an imaginary meeting ground inhabited by Itzhak Perlman, Jean-Luc Ponty and Vassar ...

Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...

The Shetland Islands, a cluster of rocks in the North Sea, is an unusual place. Wealthy from offshore oil, Shetlanders are yet wedded to ancient traditions. And they play the fiddle like no one else.

Steven Reineke will lead the strings-only concert with Houston Symphony. Credit: Photo by Bertuzzi Photography It don’t mean a thing, if it ain’t got those strings. Houston Symphony will present ...

Learn old time tunes, develop instrumental skill, jam with new friends, and perform at an end of the week celebration. The day camp will be held in Conway, Arkansas. Dates are July 25th through 29th.

Sympathetic Strings: Stories of the Hardanger Fiddle e xplores the Scandinavian American history and culture surrounding the Hardanger fiddle as it is practiced in the Upper Midwest. The documentary ...