Fiddlers in a sentence

Bands from Surry County made a good showing at the 51st-annual Mount Airy Bluegrass and Old-Time Fiddlers Convention during the weekend, along with other local competitors in individual instrument and other categories.

It will feature Keith Paterson, Kenny MacDonald, The Acoustic Forty Elephants, plus Mhairi Marwick and the Arc Fiddlers.

The lineup is Trevor Hutchinson on bass, piper Cillian Vallely, Kevin Crawford on flute, fiddlers Sean Smyth and Colin Farrell, accordionist Alan Kelly and guitarist Ed Boyd.

And those with some expertise in the traditions and musical techniques would marvel at the renditions of reels and jigs by session fiddlers and pipers.

We have a staff of about 20 people, so we are scrambling to find work — especially on the smaller project side, ” said Brad Parker, the owner of Fiddlers Green Landscaping.

A quartet of fiddlers and a guitarist from Lochgoilhead Fiddle Workshop, who were competing at the Royal National Mod in Glasgow later that week, came along as a rehearsal and delighted the audience with their chosen piece.

Great performance Franklin County Fiddlers to earn a standing ovation at the Maine Senate Chamber.

I jus’ wish I could tell, an’ make it plain jus how good him an’ old Mistis was…De overseers was made to un’erstan’ to be ‘siderate of us…Marse had two of de slaves jus’ to be fiddlers.

The Jammu based second fiddlers of the Kashmir centric PDP have already gone in the hibernation while their counterparts in the National Conference are struggling to assert their lost stature.

The Kiever’s fundraising event, Fiddlers for the Roof, which was held on Sept. 15, featured traditional Iranian music with a focus on Jewish musicians, klezmer and other eastern European styles, along with cajun and zydeco music.

Jono’s Place will be running activities in its studio, and members of the Belfast Fiddlers will be performing around the building.

The Bear Mountain Boys will perform at Fiddlers Crossing on St. Patrick's Day.

The confessional seal was never meant to be a loophole for kiddy fiddlers to clear their conscience scot free.

The Jimmy Taylor Memorial Doubles will take place in the Fiddlers bar on Monday.

Among the travelling fiddlers of the late 19th century players such as John Mhosaí McGinley, Anthony Hilferty, the McConnells and the Dohertys are best known.

Fiddlers tend to play fast and make heavy use of staccato bowing and may from time to time "play the bass," meaning a second fiddler may play a melody an octave below where a first fiddler is playing it.

It is less common for a classically trained violinist to play folk music, but today, many fiddlers have classical training.

Originally, "hillbilly" was used to describe fiddlers and string bands, but now it was used to describe traditional Appalachian music.

Other old fiddlers dislike the ways comhaltas sessions were organised with a committee player, often not himself a musician, in charge.

The Donegal fiddlers may well have been the route by which Scottish tunes such as Lucy Campbell, Tarbolton Lodge (Tarbolton) and The Flagon (The Flogging Reel), that entered the Irish repertoire.