Whether you’re listening to Patti Smith’s cover of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” or versions of Jethro Tull’s “Locomotive Breath,” it’s not all that uncommon to hear fiddle, especially in later versions ...

This year is the first at the 149-year-old Clark County Fair for the Washington State Fiddle Championship, which drew fiddle players from around the region to compete. Portland’s Eileen Walter watched ...

When the fiddle appears in a country song, it is undeniably the loudest and most piercing instrument on the track. It can whine, it can hiss, it can do many things the guitar can and cannot. One might ...

Jacie Sites, national fiddle champion, discusses her passion for fiddling, performing and returning to her hometown on July 3, 2025, inside her home in Pendleton. PENDLETON — Jacie Sites doesn’t just ...

Cost: $20, includes entry to the contest finals and the Fireball Mail concert. Tickets available through Brown Paper Tickets. When Fireball Mail singer/guitarist Brad Bulla was young, he saw Doc and ...

Back and forth, their bows glide across violin strings; hands noodle over fingerboards. But for all the effort, the students can't quite keep the rhythm. "I can tell we've had two weeks off. That was ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Beatrice Ferreira remembers the first time she took the stage at the Lyons Fiddle Festival. The ...

WOOSTER – The fiddle contest at the Wayne County Fair featured an abundance of talented players of a wide range of ages, from a trio of competitors 12 and under, to a quartet of senior division ...

Each Tuesday night, a group of musicians gather in a nondescript room at the Natrona County School District offices. They sit together in a small circle, plucking, strumming and fiddling their wooden ...