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 ...

There is no question that violin-making is an art form. It requires a musician's ear, a craftsperson's skill, and a historian's appreciation of lessons learned over time. Making a violin also takes ...

A West Texas man chipped away at the project for decades. When he died in 2018, the violin was still unfinished — a bunch of carefully crafted parts in a box. Robert Hunter wasn't famous. The man who ...

CAMBRIDGE, Minnesota — The strings on his fiddle dance with the bow while Gene Van Alstine waltzes with his past. On a summer afternoon, Gene plays fiddle solo in his workshop a few steps from a ...

JB Violins is tucked into a small building off Alley 38, just south of West Bonita Avenue in Claremont. One might expect its location in Claremont is the result of the arts-friendly college culture of ...

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