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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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(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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Mark O'Connor (category American bluegrass fiddlers)
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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"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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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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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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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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Paul Warren (fiddler) (category American bluegrass fiddlers)
Paul Warren (May 17, 1918 –January 12, 1978) was an American fiddle player best known for his work on a number of Kitty Wells singles, and his long tenure...
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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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starting around 1930, flatpicking in American music was developed when guitarists began arranging old-time American fiddle tunes on the guitar, expanding the...
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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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"Cherokee Fiddle" is a song written by Michael Martin Murphey. Murphey's version of the song went to number 58 on the Hot Country Singles chart in 1977...
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Nyckelharpa (redirect from Nordic keyed fiddle)
plural nyckelharpor), meaning "keyed fiddle" or "key harp"(lit.), is a bowed chordophone, similar in appearance to a fiddle or violin but larger (in its earlier...
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swing fiddle component of American fiddle.[citation needed] The melody came from an 1856 ballad, "Darling Nelly Gray", which John Wills knew as a fiddle tune...
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and was first recorded in 1924. The song is typically played on banjo or fiddle, and well-known versions of the song include instrumental versions as well...
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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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Kenny Baker (fiddler) (category American bluegrass fiddlers)
Kenneth Clayton Baker (June 26, 1926 – July 8, 2011) was an American fiddle player best known for his 25-year tenure with Bill Monroe and his group The...
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