MANSFIELD – Melanie Rodgers, 70, started playing the violin in the Mansfield Symphony during her time as a student at Mansfield Senior High School. Rodgers, who now plays the fiddle with the ...

When Natalie Padilla was just a sprite playing with her friends, her mother, who was on stage playing bluegrass with her fiddle, spotted Natalie with two sticks, copying her mother. Natalie doesn’t ...

Within hours of arriving at Fiddle Camp in Stillwater this week, students were learning the art of improvising from two masters. Bluegrass, explained Brian Wicklund and Joe Walsh, is all about ...

Back and forth, their bows glide across violin strings; hands noodle over fingerboards. But for all the effort, the students can't quite keep the rhythm. "I can tell we've had two weeks off. That was ...

Lee Anne Welch’s musical journey began 35 years ago when her parents enrolled her in violin lessons. The Saratoga native dreamed of playing in a string quartet, but life had different plans for her.