Fiddle Studio
The glasses clink and the talk and laughter grow louder. In the corner of the pub, musicians sit and play traditional dance tunes that make your feet want to stomp and slide. Join fiddler Meg Wobus Beller as she brings you along into the world of fiddling and traditional music, from bow-grips and double stops to Old-Time tunes and Irish jigs.
Fiddle Studio
Novels with fiddlers (Donnybrook Fair)
If you're a reader and a fiddler, here are some recommendations for books from children's books to YA and general fiction that feature fiddlers and fiddling. Some of these books have even been known to inspire folks to pick up the fiddle!
Kids books:
Mole music
Just Enough and Not Too Much
Fiddling Sam
Nina’s Waltz
A Fiddle for Angus
YA or chapter books:
The New Policemen
Little House on the Prairie
A Girl of the Limberlost
Fiddle Fever
Thriller/Detective:
Violin conspiracy
An Equal Music
As I walked Out One Midsummer Morning
The Busker
The Fifth String
Fiddle Game
Keeper of Secrets
The Gentle Care for Broken Thing
War:
Long March Home
Simon the Fiddler
Cold Mountain
Master & Commander
South/Mountain Culture:
Fiddler’s Ghost
The Devil’s Dream
The Insolent Breed
The Grapes of Wrath
Refuge by Dot Jackson
Healing:
Come and Go, Molly Snow
Soldier's Joy
Paddy on the Hardwood
Romance:
Carnal Innocence
Fiddler’s Dream
The Devil and Preston Black
Our tune this week is the Irish jig Donnybrook Fair.
Reach me at meganbeller@fiddlestudio.com.
Bandcamp
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Fiddle Studio books
My website for learning to fiddle is Fiddle Studio which has courses and a mailing list and my Top 10 Fiddle Tunes!
