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Winter '12/'13: Eddie Stubbes (Part Two); Pete Clark (Part One); Andy Stein; Jason Carter; Norway's Annbjørg Lien & Arve Moen Bergset; Feast of Fiddles...
Fall 2012: Hanneke Cassel; Eddie Stubbs (Part One); L'Angelus' Stephen Rees; Scottish Fiddler Tour, Part 4: Gordon Gunn...
Summer 2012: The Grascals' Jeremy Abshire; New York's Don Woodcock; Violin Maker Kate Rickenbacker; Virg Evans: The Flying Fiddler; Scottish Fiddle Tour, Part 3...
Spring 2012: Becky Buller; Tammy Rogers; Jennifer Wrigley on Orkney Islands Fiddling; Bamboo Bow Maker David Zimmerman; Jeff Anderson...
Winter '11/'12: West Highlands Fiddler Aonghas Grant; Kentucky Fiddlers Art, Charlie & Hiram Stamper; Bringing Jigs to Life; Violin Maker Charles Horner; Long-distance Fiddling (Essay)...
Fall 2011: New Brunswick's Eddie Poirier; Stacy Phillips on New Acoustic in NY; A Son's Tribute to Fiddlin' Paul Warren; A Look at Bow Holds in Traditional Fiddling; Art Bowman and the Demon of Mooreville (fiction); A "Monumental" Win: Contest-winning tune "Too Late Schottische"; Canray Fontenot...
Summer 2011: Grand Champion Kimber Ludiker; Nashville's Dan Kelly; Northwest Fiddler Harry Johnson; The Rose Collection of Bluegrass Photos; Virginia Violin Maker Don Leister; Learning & Playing Irish Reels...
Spring 2011: Darol Anger: New Acoustic Music, Part One; Kentucky's Roger Cooper; Clayton McMichen: The Early Years; Rediscovered Irish Recordings...
Winter ’10/’11: Ireland’s Kane Sisters; Calum MacKinnon; Crooked Still’s Brittany Haas and Tristan Clarridge; Cookie Segelstein, Part 2…
Fall 2010: Mark O'Connor; Carolina Chocolate drops; Klezmer Fiddler Cookie Segelstein; Violin Maker Joe Thrift…
Summer '10: Seamus McGuire; Buddy Pendleton; Mats Edén; "Black Velvet" Fiddling; Nashville Number System...
Spring '10: Matt Brown; Deborah Greenblatt; Paul Davenport on English Fiddling; Playford Promenade; Johnny Hill's Last Solo (fiction)...
Winter '09/'10: A Tribute to Cape Breton Fiddler Jerry Holland; Dudley Laufman; The Making of The Portland Collection; Suzy Thompson; Fiddler/Fiddle Maker Paul Bradley; Violin Repairers Frank & Ron Stewart…
Fall ’09 (sold out): Donegal's Danny Meehan, Part Two; Tom Paley; Eden MacAdam-Somer; South Dakota's Jarle Foss; A Session in Melbourne; Folk Routes in North Africa; Fiddle Maker Bob Kogut...
Summer ’09 (sold out): Seattle's Vivian & Phil Williams; A Pioneer Wedding Dance in Seattle; Donegal's Danny Meehan, Part One; Scordatura in Irish Fiddling; The Grand Ole Opry's Kenny Sears; Michael Cleveland; Choosing a Bow...
Spring ’09: Laurie Lewis: Birds and Rattlesnakes and Bluegrass Music; Martin Hayes: Nowadays; Oisín Mac Diarmada: Moving with the Music; Alabama’s Roy Crawford; Mads Tolling; Norwegian-American Fiddler Leonard Finseth; Steel String Showdown...
Winter ’08/’09: Benton Flippen: The Essence of Old Time; Liz Doherty: Donegal to Cape Breton; Didier Lockwood: Jazz Violin; The Fiddlers Philharmonic...
Fall 2008 (sold out): Texas’ Quebe Sisters Band: Capturing the Esssence, and Lovin’ It; Gypsy Fiddler Fabrice Martinez: Fiddling from the Open Road; Bluegrass Fiddler Jason Barie; Norwegian-American Fiddlers I: Beth Hoven Rotto; The Legend of Clifford Griffin; Fiddletown, 95629...
Summer ’08 (sold out): Daniel & Amy Carwile: Duet; Jeremy Kittel: A Scottish Fiddle Champion Jazzes it Up; Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddlers Contest; Violin Maker Lukas Wronski; "Carried Away": Trace in the Performance of Norwegian Fiddle Music...
Spring ’08 (sold out): Casey Driessen; Christian Howes; Farquhar MacRae; Bowed Radio; Calvin Camp...
Winter ’07/’08 (sold out): Oisín McAuley, Mitch Jayne: The Fiddler’s Ghost: Legends of? Fiddledom; Finland’s Jussi Tarkkanen and Emilia Lajunen; What’s in a Name: A Glossary of Instrument Lingo; The Tennessee Fiddle Orchestra; Fiddler and Fiddle Maker Lyle Reedy...
Fall ’07 (sold out): Fletcher Bright; Maeve Donnelly; How to Make a Recording; Performance Anxiety; Cape Breton’s Dan R. MacDonald; Angus Chisholm...
Summer ’07: Irish fiddler Sarah Blair, New Mexico’s Ken Keppeler & Jeanie McLerie, New Brunswick’s Garold Hanscom, Finnish Fiddling; Piia Kleemola, Fundamentals of Solid Bowing...
Spring ’07 (sold out): April Verch: Fancy Footwork; Folk Routes in Portugal; An Introduction to Traditional Fiddling in Portugal; Harmony: The Legacy of Buddy Spicher; Fidding 101 and Beyond...
Winter ’06/’07: Andy Leftwich; Jean-Luc Ponty; Gerry O’Connor; Neyveli S. Radhakrishna’s Jordan Double Violin; Costa Rica’s National Song...
Fall ’06 (sold out): Jake Krack; Eastern European Fiddling; Washington’s Floyd Engstrom; Fiddling in Jämtland, Sweden; A “Winning” Contest Round, Part III...
Summer ’06: Donegal’s Caoimhin Mac Aoidh; James O’Neill; Alan Jabbour; Hungarian Gypsy Fiddling; Hunter Berry; A “Winning” Contest Round, Part II...
Spring ’06 (sold out): Violin Maker David Gusset; Homage to Grappelli (Tim Kliphuis; Martin Weiss; Evan Price); Competing in Cañon City, Colorado; Bowing with Caoimhin O Raghallaigh; Jonny Hardie...
Winter ’05/’06 (sold out): Cajun fiddling; Dirk Powell; David Greely; Festivals Acadiens; Ranchdance Fiddlers: Four Young Women Carry on the Tradition; Robert Wilson: One-String Fiddler; The Caledonian Pocket Companion; A "Winning" Contest, Part I; New Year's Day in New Hampshire...
Fall ’05 (sold out): Johnny Frigo; Day of the Dead; Wendy MacIsaac; Stephan Dudash; Ned Steinberger; Robert Burns & Scots Fiddling; Graded Fiddle Tunes...
Summer ’05 (sold out): Fiddlers of Bill Monroe; Bobby Hicks; Gene Lowinger; Richard Greene; Earl White; Remembering Ralph Blizard; Starting and Running a Jam; John Durocher; Arranging Hymns for Two Fiddles...
Spring ’05 (sold out): Svend Asmussen; Caoimhin O Raghallaigh; Fiddle Music of the Civil War; Jamie Laval; Composer Brian Hebert; Violin Maker Peter Van Arsdale...
Winter ’04/’05 (sold out): Regina Carter: From Suzuki Student to Jazz Diva; A Thirst for Music: Son Huasteco in Mexico City; Séan Ryan: The Quiet Corner; Christmas Carols for Twin Fiddles; A Norwegian Who's Who, Part II; Mastery of Scottish Arts; L.R. Baggs...
Fall ’04 (sold out): Judy Hyman; Brian Conway; Cape Breton's Kyle & Lucy MacNeil; Knut Buen; Loretta Kelley; A Who's Who of Norwegian Fiddling; Four-Part Harmony Workshop for Swing Twin Fiddles; On Improvisation: Fiddling the Blues, Part I...
Summer ’04 (sold out): Ireland's John Carty; California's Brittany Haas; Gypsy Jazz & DjangoFest Northwest; Who's Who behind ABC Musical Notation...
Spring ’04 (10th Anniversary Issue)(sold out): Ireland's Siobhan Peoples; Creating Bluegrass Fiddle Solos; Prince Edward Island's Richard Wood; A Salute to Our Ten-Year Advertisers; Faces of Fiddler Magazine; Recollections of Ten Years of Fiddler Magazine...
Winter ’03/’04: Matt Cranitch; John McCusker; Hollis Taylor; Michael Kang; Norwegian Folk Festival Diary; Telemark Folk Festival; Jan Beitohaugen Granli; Daniel Sandén-Warg; The Violin-Making Tradition of Mittenwald, Germany; Fiddler Goes to NAMM; Maine's Mellie Dunham...
Fall ’03: An Introduction to Norwegian Fiddling; Norway's Hardanger Master Håkon Høgemo; Norway's Vegar Vårdal; Cowboy Fiddler Bus Boyk; Ireland's Pat McManus; Gene Goforth; History of Swing to Bebop, Part IV...
Summer ’03: Bobby Hicks; Dan Gellert; Rayna Gellert; Paddy Glackin; Chris Daring; Daniel Slosberg; Dorado Schmitt; History of Swing to Bebop, Part III...
Spring ’03: Doug Kershaw; Brendan McGlinchey; Arto Järvelä; Seán Smyth; Taraf de Haïdouks; History of Swing to Bebop, Part II...
Winter ’02/’03 (sold out): Matt Glaser; Ruthie Dornfeld; Patrick Ourceau; Bob Fulcher & the Music of the Cumberland Trail; History of Swing to Bebop, Part I; Thoth; Kole Crook; Bettie Freel...
Fall ’02: Larry Franklin; Alasdair Fraser; Stuart Duncan; Winifred Horan; Dudley Laufman; Xavier Vidal; Tales of Phantom Fiddlers...
Summer ’02 (sold out): A Tribute to Stéphane Grapelli; Fiddlers 4: Darol Anger, Bruce Molsky, Michael Doucet, Rushad Eggleston; Peter Ostroushko; Frankie Gavin; Pete Sutherland; Fletcher Bright...
Spring ’02 (sold out): Séamus Connolly; Afro-Cuban Salsa fiddling; Gilles Apap; "Foxhunt" Charlie Bowman; Bobby Horton; Anton Tesla, Weiser...
Winter ’01/’02 (sold out): Métis & Metchif fiddling; Stacy Phillips; James Price; David Greenberg; Julianna Waller; Don Herron; Fiddler Reprieved: Saved by a Fiddle...
Fall ’01: A Tribute to John Hartford; Greek Fiddle & Lyra Extravaganza; Ireland's Junior Crehan; Kerry Blech: The "Sherlock Holmes" of Old Time Music; Last Request: Music and Legends of Condemned Fiddlers; Thomas Jefferson's Fiddle Music...
Summer ’01 (sold out): Ireland's Tommy Peoples; Nickel Creek's Sara Watkins; Brittany's Christian LeMaître; Cambodian Music: Surviving "The Killing Fields"...
Spring ’01 (sold out): Michael Doucet & BeauSoleil; Prince Edward Island's Barachois; Sam Bush; South Carolina's Pappy Sherrill; Texas' Keith Coleman...
Winter ’00/’01 (sold out): A Bluegrass Fiddle Primer; Joe Meadows; Martin Hayes: "The Lonesome Touch"; A "Fiddle Summit": Kevin Burke; Dirk Powell, Tim O'Brien; Jeremy Cohen; Steve Rosen; Bow Maker Roger Treat; A Gig in China...
Cape Breton Edition 2000 (sold out): A special issue devoted to the fiddlers and fiddling of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Features include Paul Cranford; Otis Tomas; Buddy MacMaster; Wilfred Prosper...
Fall ’00 (sold out): Gypsy Fiddling; Stuff Smith; Brad Leftwich; Bonnie Rideout; Mexico's Son Arribeño; Byron Berline on Fiddles...
Summer ’00 (sold out): Jim "Texas Shorty" Chancellor; Claude Williams; Missouri's Pete McMahan; Seattle's Armin Barnett; The Hot Club of Cowtown; Budapest Dance Ensemble...
Winter '99/'00 (sold out): Jerry Holland, Liz Carroll…
Fall ’99: Benny Martin: The Genius of Music City, USA; Cape Breton's Carl MacKenzie; Kail Flexer; Robert Bowlin; New York's Larry Downey...
Summer ’99: Alaska's Athabascan Fiddling; Gwich'in Fiddler Bill Stevens; Scotland's Pete Clark; Ireland's Máire O'Keeffe; Texas' Randy Elmore; Richard Greene...
Spring ’99: Welsh Fiddling; Wales' KilBride Brothers; Ralph Blizard; Darol Anger; Julie Lyonn Lieberman; Donegal's James Byrne...
Winter ’98/’99: Irish Fiddler Randal Bays; Jean-Luc Ponty; Klezmer Fiddler Alicia Svigals; Sweden's Olov Johansson; Tony & JayDean Ludiker; J.P. Fraley...
Fall ’98(sold out): Mexican Fiddling; Juan Reynoso; Laura Sobrino; Buddy Spicher; George Wilson; Mark O'Connor: Midnight on the Water; Ingredients of Fiddle Tunes...
Summer ’98 (sold out): Texas Fiddling Special; Frankie McWhorter; Dick Barrett; Jimmie Don & Valerie Bates; Lanny Fiel; Orville Burns; Orkney's Jennifer & Hazel Wrigley...
Spring ’98 (sold out): The Fiddling of Québec; Jean-Marie Verret; Guy Bouchard; Byron Berline; Sean McGuire...
Winter ’97/’98: Old-Time Fiddling in New York State; Jay Ungar; Ashokan; Irish Fiddler James Kelly; Sweden's Björn Ståbi; Alan Lomax & Harry Smith...
Fall ’97: Fiddling in the Shetland Isles; Catriona MacDonald; Aly Bain; Bruce Molsky...
Summer ’97: The Romance of the Kentucky Fiddler; Bruce Greene; Stuart Duncan; Pierre Schryer; Cowboy Fiddler Woody Paul...
Spring ’97 (sold out): John Hartford; Irish Fiddler Dale Russ; Scandinavian Fiddling...
Winter ’96/’97: Vassar Clements: Bridging the Gap; Fiddling the Blues; Paul Anastasio: Got That Swing!; Tunesmith Bob McQuillen...
Fall ’96 (sold out): Missouri Old Time Fiddling Traditions; Missouri Fiddler Charlie “Possum” Walden; A Missourian’s Favorite Tunes; P.J. Hayes: Fifty Years with the Tulla Ceili Band; Ivan Hicks: Fifty Years of Fiddling; Cross-Tuning Workshop Part One; Amplification Options for the Fiddler…
Summer ’96 (sold out): Fiddling, Cape Breton Style; Cape Breton Resources; Natalie MacMaster; Ashley MacIsaac; Sandy MacIntyre; Jerry Holland; Brenda Stubbert; Jackie Dunn; Cape Breton Piano Accompaniment; Richard Greene: Coming Home to Bluegrass; The Museum of Appalachia: Preserving the Traditional Mountain Arts; Billy Jack Wills and his Western Swing Band; Irish fiddler Ed Reavy...
Spring ’96 (sold out): New England Contradance Fiddling; Alasdair Fraser: Playing, Promoting and Exploring the Music of Scotland and Beyond; Mark O’Connor: From Camps to Concerts – Doing it All!; Hungarian Dance Fidding; The Nyckelharpa: Sweden’s Unique Folk Instrument…
Winter ’95/’96 (sold out): Reflections on Southern Appalachian Fiddling; Charlie Acuff: East Tennessee Fiddler; Stéphane Grappelli: Master of Jazz Violin; Violet Hensley: Ozark Fiddler and Fiddle Maker; Jess Morris: Texas Cowboy Fiddler, 1878-1957…
Fall ’95: Donegal fiddle styles; Altan fiddler Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh; Creole Fiddler Canray Fontenot; Oliver Schroer; Fiddling Bob Taylor: Fiddling with Politics…
Summer ’95: History of Western Swing Fiddling; Johnny Gimble; Kevin Burke; Bowing for Traditional Dance Fiddling, Part 2; American Violins: A Lost Legacy…
Spring ’95 (sold out): Old Time Fiddling on Prince Edward Island, Canada; Tommy Jarrell; Bowing for Traditional Dance Fiddling, Part 1…
Winter ’94/’95 (sold out): Evolution of Bluegrass Fiddling; Kenny Baker; Claude Williams…
Fall ’94 (sold out): A Short History of Cajun Fiddling; Michael Doucet; Barbara Lamb; London Violin Auctions…
Summer ’94 (sold out): Old Time Fiddling Across America; Old Time Dance Fiddling in Washington State; Chubby Wise; Stainer vs. Strad…
Spring ’94 (premier issue): Fiddle Styles of County Clare, Ireland; Martin Hayes; Laurie Lewis; Summer Schools in Ireland; Traditional Music Pubs around County Clare…