Fiddler Magazine

Founded in 1994, Fiddler Magazine is an informative, educational, and entertaining resource for fiddlers, accompanists, and appreciative listeners. Each quarterly issue (now approx. 60 pages each) features a variety of different styles of fiddling, as well as plenty of other articles and columns. Regular columns include: Bluegrass Fiddling, “The Practicing Fiddler,” Fiddle Tune History, On Improvisation, Irish Fiddling, Cross-Tuning Workshop, Cross-Canada Fiddle Tour, and reviews of CDs, books, and DVDs. Each issue also includes transcriptions of several tunes.


Summer 2017 
  • Finland's Mauno Järvelä & Näppari
  • Michigan's Judy Raber & Jim McKinney
  • Lonnie Robertson: Radio Fiddler
  • Shauncey Ali
  • Andy Reiner
  • Sam Sweeney
  • Harald Haugaard
  • Maggie Estes White
  • Columns on Irish, Scottish; Old Time; Technique; Canadian; Tune History; Waltzes & Airs
  • Reviews
  • 9 tunes… & lots more!
In upcoming issues:
10 String Symphony; Alasdair Fraser; Bríd Harper; Henry Ford's Violins; Howdy Forrester; Gordon McCann; Liz Carroll; Violin Makers…

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Read Articles!
(Once on the Articles page, click on "newer/older" at the bottom of the right-hand menu to access more than a hundred articles. Or search for your favorite fiddler or fiddle style in the search box! Note: Must click the "search" button.)