To be a champion kid fiddler, it helps to have a Hello Kitty tucked in your music case. “This is my secret box,” said 10-year-old McKenna Peterson. She slid a wooden lid to reveal a tiny glass ...

FULSHEAR, TEXAS -- When McKenna Peterson plucks away at her fiddle, you can't help tapping your feet! The 10-year-old from Fulshear, Texas, first started violin lessons when she three-and-a-half years ...

While any fiddler in Texas can play “Faded Love,” the versions at the Festival of Texas Fiddling, in Blanco, might sound as different as an owl does from a rooster. The styles could be Gulf Coast, ...

During the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a distinctive form of fiddle music emerged in Texas. Known for idiosyncratic timing and phrasing, this style was commonly played with banjos or ...

The organization Day Out for the Blind hosts a dance every Friday morning from 10:30 to noon at 5808 E. Holyoke Ave. in north Spokane. The dance is free for the vision impaired and their companions.

Excuse Jonathan Trawick while he gushes about the fiddle and fiddling. Or fiddlin’, dropping the “g” in its pronunciation, as in Fiddlin’ Arkansas, the — club? — run by Trawick that celebrates ...