The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Athens has certainly seen its fair share of fiddlers, but these are not your ...

A common dynamic binds Cajun fiddle playing and the melodic rhythms of Cape Breton sound. Neither is highly structured or technically intricate in its expressions, but both sure make you feel good ...

Dynamic fiddler Natalie MacMaster returns to George Mason University directly from a weekend at the East Coast Music Awards in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where her latest album, “Cape Breton Girl,” won for ...

For the 2009-10 season, the Saginaw Choral Society is turning tables on its audience. Twice on the roster, the audience will do the singing and the 100-member community choir will not. "We're ...

Four decades ago, a Bostonian named Charles MacMaster sent a gift of four fiddles to his family back home in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He had good reason to ship those instruments to Maritime Canada: ...

Jerry Holland, from Cape Breton, and Tommy Peoples, from Ireland, are masters of their respective styles of fiddling. Together in concert they will display similarities as well as the differences of ...

Wednesday night in the University at Buffalo's Center for the Arts. Natalie MacMaster, a truly amazing performer, is not only one of the finest young proponents of Cape Breton style fiddle playing, ...