We often think of traditional Scottish music performed in an ensemble with fiddle, pipes (either Highland or border style), a piano or perhaps a guitar or bouzouki and, on occasion, harp. But the ...

The fiddle accompanied Lewis & Clark across the West. Fur trappers danced to it. Fiddle music followed the Métís as they sought a safe place south of the border, and they shared it with the Blackfeet.

In 1994, Liz Doherty – a renowned fiddler from Buncrana, Co Donegal – was lecturing in the music department at UCC. She had a brainwave. She wanted her students to learn traditional music through ...

A warm Saturday afternoon turned cool, and a motley crew of fiddlers trickled in. Outside, behind the small-town music shop, the fiddlers arranged themselves in a semi-circle, dry leaves crunching ...