The violin is the smallest and highest-pitched of the string instrument family. Violins are important instruments in a wide variety of musical genres - they are most prominent in the Western classical ...

In the world of music, folk and classic seem worlds apart. However, Joan Baez sees a lot similarities as she picks five of ...

The best folk and acoustic music from Britain and beyond. This week, Gary Innes from Mànran talks about their new sound and the plan to put Rabbie Burns' personal violin on stage in Glasgow and ...

It was later finished by a luthier in Oxford before being bought by folk musician Sam Sweeney in 2009. Mr Sweeney played the violin at Pte ... was a luthier and music hall performer in Leeds ...

Christine Norman Hall and Julianne Paustian for a program featuring folk music from five different countries at the club’s ...