Attendees gather under tents to play together and escape the rain at a previous annual installment of the Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddlers Convention...Outside of competition, the Fiddlers Convention ...
There are fiddle players who play the instrument and then there is Anne Harris, a fiddler whose instrument plays her ...Green Room Newsletter. You’re subscribed! ... Email. Sign Up ... She also became a rare fiddler in a genre dominated by electric guitars ... ....
The Old Fiddler's Convention in Galax, Va., features mostly amateur musicians playing Bluegrass and Old Time music. At age 89, it's the oldest continuous competition of its kind in the U.S. (Image credit. Allison Isley) ....
When Jordan Fein called his grandmother to tell her he would be directing a new production of Fiddler on the Roof in London, she broke into song, a word-perfect rendition of If I Were a Rich Man, one of the musical’s most famous numbers.
When Liangda Hu first tried doing Daf Yomi, the practice of studying a page of Talmud per day, he struggled to read it. Hu found the language of English Talmud translations uniquely archaic and, as someone who speaks English as ... .
Along the way, a broadcast of “Fiddler on the Roof” and a Facebook connection with his first Jewish friend played pivotal roles ... But that was before Hu saw “Fiddler on the Roof.” ... But for Hu, “Fiddler ...
The number of fiddlers registering to compete in this year’s Ohio State Old Time Fiddlers contest is seeing a slight increase this year. There’s still time to register for the Aug. 15 event at Stuart’s Opera House in Nelsonville... .
But none are as old as the fiddlers' contest, which celebrated its 100th year Sunday ... This year's winner was Kirk Brandenberger of Keokuk, who now can claim two fiddlers' titles — 52 years apart.