At first glance, the fiddle looks a lot like a violin. The biggest difference is the piece that holds the strings together. "The bridge itself can be a little bit flatter, so you can play multiple ...

Irish fiddler Kevin Burke is always tickled to play in Tucson. “I often think this kind of music we play is typically wet-weather music,” Burke said in a phone interview from Portland, Ore., his home ...

Imagine the looks a classically trained Taiwanese-American violinist would get walking into an Irish pub in Ireland and saying she was there to play traditional Irish fiddle music. That didn’t quite ...