Richmond

Fiddle player Sara Watkins doing fine on her own

Nickel Creek, the groundbreaking bluegrass-newgrass-folk trio founded by Sara Watkins, her brother Sean Watkins and Chris Thile, went on what the three described as a hiatus in 2007. Rest assured, ...
American Songwriter

On This Day in 1984, Alabama Accidentally Fiddled to the Top With “If You’re Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band)”

Alabama is arguably the most successful band in country music history. And on this day in 1984, the group saw one of what would become their career-defining songs top the country charts. “If You’re ...
Berkshire Eagle

From Arlo Guthrie to The Bothy Band, Kevin Burke helped modernize Irish fiddle music

SHEFFIELD — Growing up in London, fiddle player Kevin Burke received the best education in Irish traditional music that anyone could ask for. When Burke came of age in the 1960s, the influx of Irish ...
Post and Courier

Hammock Coast Happenings: Catch this well-rounded performer and a fiddle player in Murrells Inlet

Louisiana-born Owen Reeves has a photograph of himself as a toddler in a car seat with a little toy guitar. "Both sides of my family played music," he said. Indeed, his father played professionally as ...