At the beginning of the fourth cut on the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd's one and only fiddle album titled "Mountain Fiddler," he starts off the fiddle tune "Cripple Creek" by doing a recitation. In the ...

To hear Catherine Burnside talk about her ambitions, her dreams of stomping with the big dawgs, as they used to say on Martin, is almost spine-tingling. At only 23 years old, the native Houstonian ...

A former child prodigy and U.S. fiddle champion, Mark O’Connor is arguably the world’s most gifted bluegrass virtuoso. How else do you describe an artist who, at age 20, was already receiving gushing ...