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Bluegrass fiddling is a distinctive style of American fiddle playing which is characterized by bold bluesy improvisation off-beat chopping and sophisticated use of both double-stops and old-time bowing patterns.

Gospel reggae is a genre of music that originated in Jamaica mixing reggae rhythms with Christianity-themed lyrics.Several reggae artists many of whom were previously part of the Rastafari movement have […]

Cajun fiddle music is a part of the American fiddle music canon. It is derived from the music of southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas as well as sharing repertoire from […]

Métis fiddle is the style which the Métis of Canada and Métis in the northern United States have developed to play the violin solo and in folk ensembles. It is […]

Sangeet Natak in Marathi language literally means Musical Drama. As the name suggests this form of drama combines prose as well as poetry in form of songs to convey the […]

Jaiva or Township Jive (TJ) is a sub-genre of South African township music and African dance form which has influenced Western break dance and emerged from the shebeen culture of […]

Noise Khanyile & the Jo’burg City Stars was a Johannesburg South Africa based ensemble produced by Lloyd Ross and released by Shifty Records. Noise has been critically acclaimed by scholars […]

Canadian fiddle is the aggregate body of tunes styles and musicians engaging the traditional folk music of Canada on the fiddle. It is an integral extension of the Anglo-Celtic and […]

Blues violin or fiddle originated as a variety of American fiddle and is the expressive interpretive performance of a relatively standardized repertoire of music from the various blues genres (Piedmont […]

Old time fiddle is a genre of American folk music. Old time fiddle tunes may be played on fiddle banjo or other instruments but are nevertheless called fiddle tunes. The […]