June's event was headlined by Irish acoustic band Lunasa and Scottish fiddler Rua Macmillan.
Somewhere Tevye from "Fiddler on the Roof" is telling me some traditions must not change.
Gore, he said, was such an energetic fiddler that he could not find the beat.
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Mean Fiddler Media also wants to sell content from its concert and festival venues.
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Latitude was set up last year by Mean Fiddler, the firm behind the Reading and Leeds festivals.
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Mean Fiddler runs a range of music venues in the UK, including London's Astoria, Forum and Jazz Cafe.
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But Mean Fiddler, the organisation which runs the venue, appealed against the decision.
Mark O'Connor is an acknowledged master folk fiddler, but his musical interests have also led him into classical music's concert halls.
O'Connor's new CD features conductor Marin Alsop leading the Baltimore Symphony in the Americana Symphony, the fiddler's latest foray into orchestral music.
"Carousel, " "Oliver, " "Fiddler on the Roof, " "Cabaret, " "Les Miserables, " and "Dreamgirls, " have all played there, though only "Dreamgirls" seemed to trigger a reaction.
For a moment I am a kid again, feeling the mud of the Chesapeake between my toes and chasing fiddler crabs down into their holes.
Now, Mr. Ben Bernanke pays the fiddler and calls the tune.
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Newcastle-based fiddler Tom McConville won the musician of the year prize.
Another speaker, Jerry Fiddler, a venture capitalist in Oakland, Calif.
Oh, and there's a bit of "If I Were a Rich Man" from "Fiddler on the Roof, " sung by one Willy Blowman, a swish lawyer in a flashy yellow suit.
"I've been serving the clearest glass of tea I've handed out in my 12 years of business, " says Jim Hunt, owner of the Fiddler's Resort, a local hotel and restaurant.
There were lifetime achievement awards for Shetland fiddler, Aly Bain, Roy Harper - a folk rocker who started out in the 1960s, and Dougie MacLean - who wrote the Scottish anthem Caledonia.
In 1947, Watson married Rosa Lee Carlton, the daughter of an old-time fiddler, and they had two children, Eddy Merle (named after Eddy Arnold and Merle Travis), born in 1949, and daughter Nancy Ellen, born in 1951.
As a member of the Grammy-winning progressive-acoustic trio Nickel Creek, Watkins, a fiddler, along with Chris Thile and her brother Sean, helped introduce finger-picked jams to fans who had never given mandolins a second thought.
Adriaen van Ostade, the master of peasant genre scenes, is represented by "The Violinist" (1673) and seven lively etchings in a great print exhibition next door in which people are entertained by an itinerant fiddler in front of an inn.
Here you will see the usual flashes of Miami glitter and flair, SUVs and fake tans and condo canyons, but you will also spy thick bearded men in gabardine coats and head-scarved babushkas wandering around like lost extras from Fiddler on the Roof.
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