Prof. Craig Womack, English, Emory University, sang a Creek hymn to audience members in Caldwell Hall on Friday, recounting stories from his role as a fiddler in traditional dances at Oklahoma’s ...

It has become legend that the chamber group performing on the Titanic the night it sank played until the very end. But, what were they playing and who wrote it? The moment ‘the violins kept playing’ ...

The violin played as the Titanic ship sinks in the Hollywood film is expected to sell for £60,000 at auction. Amid the chaos of the sinking ship, a string quartet plays the hymn Nearer My God To Thee, ...

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In the latest installment of the series "Honky Tonk, Hymns and the Blues," NPR's Paul Brown explores the origins of the country fiddle — from Eck Robertson to the very word, "fiddle." Paul also ...

A violin played by the band leader of the Titanic as it sank in the 1997 Hollywood film has been sold for £54,000 at a "record breaking" auction. The violin was used to play the hymn Nearer My God To ...

Violinist Bethany Bordeaux has spent the last 13 years touring the Christian music scene. Along the way she has performed with country singer Kellie Pickler and pop star Taylor Swift. This weekend she ...

While Schroer s last album, Camino, was about his personal travels down the Camino de Santiago in Europe with nothing but his fiddle, recording equipment and some very old churches, this is by far ...

Rímur are songs in the unique Icelandic tradition of rhyming narrative verse. Transmitted orally for centuries, in the twentieth century they were recorded and transcribed by ethnographers and folk ...