Violin makers, aka luthiers, traditionally learn from hands-on experience how to craft parts and select materials to shape an ...

All hail the guitar solo — one of the most indestructibly great art forms in all of modern music. There’s nothing quite like ...

There’s a moment in Joe Berlinger’s 2012 documentary Under African Skies that gets right to the bottom of Paul Simon's ...

Composer Vincent Ott and musician Andrew Loper, known on-stage as Rubber, first met three years ago at an open mic night at ...

The second wave of performers coming to the Montana Folk Festival on July 10-12 in Butte include master musicians and dancers. Festival Director George Everett said attendees can expect to find plenty ...

On October 30, 2023, shortly before my sixty-ninth birthday, I stepped into a music store a few minutes from my house, in the southern suburbs of Milan, to buy a mandolin. At first, I thought that I ...

In eastern Kentucky, the heritage of folk and traditional music, rooted in instruments like guitars, mandolins and dulcimers, is deeply seated. There's an effort to capitalize on this rich culture ...

Violinist Jinty McTavish (right) plays an instrument from the Violins of Hope collection as she practices with the Atlys String Quartet. Violins of Hope, a project built around a private collection of ...

Glen Curry, 99, of Fayetteville, ARK., passed away peacefully one day after his 99th birthday. Glen was born on March 6, 1927, to James "Bud" Curry and Nancy Gibson. Glen is the last to pass on out of ...

The mission of The String Queens – featuring Kendall Isadore on violin, Dawn Johnson on viola, and Élise Sharp on cello – is to “create musical experiences that inspire diverse audiences to love, hope ...

Music nerds and lovers of fascinating inventions, rejoice! The 10 finalists in Georgia Tech’s annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition were announced recently, and they’re just as weird and ...