IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This fiddle was made by John Castor ...

Each week Olga Shapovalova offers to folk music lovers a multicoloured display of customs and traditions, legends and tales, melodies and rythms of Russia. The Gudok is a unique musical instrument, an ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The ornately decorated fiddle belonged to the dance master who taught Robert Burns. At Carnegie, it will cap “Scotland’s Hoolie in New York.” Duncan Chisholm with the fiddle ...

James Ehnes's outstanding Bartók series for Chandos continues with the early romantic Sonata BB 28 (1903), Hungarian Folk Songs and Romanian Folk Dances. The key work, however, is the unaccompanied ...

My sister and I found this picture that belonged to my father. This could be a record of folk music played in the New Forest at the start of the 20th Century. Folk music experts have told me that he ...

Bitch, devil’s fiddle, some traditional Polish folk instruments may have brow-raising names, but all of them have a unique and fascinating sound which lends Polish folk its inimitable cachet. Ligawka ...

THE owner of a once-battered old fiddle is hoping to find the family of the man who made it. Retired senior civil servant Martin Shelley, from Tillicoultry in Clackmananshire, is the owner of the ...

The 23-year-old producer/vocalist Sudan Archives (aka Brittney Parks) mixes Northeast African folk violin with electronic music, creating a complex web of sounds that includes percussive plucks, ...

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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This fiddle was made by John Castor ...