Take a few simple steps to help keep your fiddle in tip-top shape.

Sep 14, 2010 - Ellery Klein

To play old time fiddle that makes listeners tap their toes, musicians need to spend time absorbing the style. They can start with music streams and free MP3 downloads.

Oct 16, 2008 - Marcy Paulson

Fiddlers use shuffle bowing to liven up their tunes. Practicing and listening to old time masters can make this bowing technique a natural part of a fiddler's playing.

Oct 20, 2008 - Marcy Paulson

Experimenting with alternate tunings such as GDGB, ADAE, or AEAE can allow musicians to find the rich drones so popular in old time fiddling.

Jul 20, 2010 - Marcy Paulson

Every August at Windy Acres, just outside of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, is the John Arcand fiddle and Métis jigging festival.

Dec 30, 2009 - Lori Henry

Happy 90th Birthday to "Spiro Who's" wife and widow, Elinor Isobel Judefind "Judy" Agnew. However, it's her assonant and haranguing husband hailed here.

Nov 3, 2011 - Rick Stelnick

Like many children's bedtime stories and fairy tales, Goldilocks and The Three Bears has changed over time.

Jan 24, 2009 - John K. Davis

Throughout history, humans have tried to explain how everything came to be. The theories we came up with were conjecture based on intuition and imagination.

Feb 10, 2007 - Katharine M. J. Osborne

How did the modern calendar come to be? The history of the calendar illustrates our evolving understanding of the universe.

May 1, 2007 - Katharine M. J. Osborne

The Halloween of today is about candy, good times and costumes. Halloween wasn't always this way. In the past Halloween was celebrated very differently.

Sep 19, 2010 - Preetika Reddy

From a twenty-year old Hollywood contract player to today's International bon vivant, find out how George Hamilton keeps the ladies in line and himself on top.

Apr 23, 2007 - Devorah Macdonald

This October you will no doubt tell scary ghost stories and attend a haunted Halloween party but where did it all come from? When was the first Halloween?

Oct 9, 2009 - Marc Salyer

Man was the product of the spirit world's actions, continuing what Iyan had begun.

Jun 23, 2008 - Jeffrey R Gudzune

Halloween is traditionally a time for festive celebrations of a supernatural nature.

Oct 15, 2008 - Jen Syrkiewicz

Suite101 investigates the origins of one of the most important music genres of the 20th century, The Blues.

Mar 7, 2009 - Craig Sanders

Many famous people believe in superstitions. How they came to be part of the culture is often a curious tale.

May 6, 2010 - Brenda Gargus

Dialectical processes surround us in nature, in art, in our own lives, for they are the motive force of all that exists, but what are origins of dialectics...?

Feb 20, 2010 - Barry Gibbons

The economic system of Capitalism, which dominates the world today, was jump started by trade between the Silk Road and northwest Europe in the 1200s.

Jun 11, 2010 - Douglas Harvey

Thanksgiving celebrations date back to ancient Greek and Roman times when they were called "harvest festivals." American tradition is deeply rooted in this ancestry.

Sep 15, 2008 - Christin Aitchison