Students play their fiddles during Southeast Missouri State University Music Academy's Exploring American Fiddle Styles class taught by Steve Schaffner at the River Campus on Wednesday, July 20, 2016.

PORT TOWNSEND — An intentional, international community has just formed at Fort Worden State Park. It’s called Fiddle Tunes, and it sounds like joy. Centrum’s 43rd Festival of American Fiddle Tunes ...

PORT TOWNSEND — The thing about the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes: It’s far more than fiddling. Sure, major folks are gathering at Fort Worden State Park today for Fiddle Tunes, as the 36-year-old ...

Recorded in: Asheville (N.C.), Ararat (N.C.), North Carolina, Farmington (Ark.), Arkansas, Crowley (La.), Louisiana, Iuka (Miss.), Meridian (Miss.), Mississippi ...

Although few people can name even three black classical composers, the Chicago-based violinist Rachel Barton Pine can name 350. Pine’s RBP Foundation Music by Black Composers (MBC) project has ...

Musician David Bromberg began collecting American-made violins about a half-century ago and has amassed the world’s largest collection. He had planned to have them showcased in the Library of Congress ...