Laurel Parks instructs the beginner "Drunken Fiddles" class at Belger Crane Yard Studios. Learning to play an instrument as an adult can be difficult, especially when many beginner level classes are ...

Alton private violin instructor Kelsey Waits runs her violin studio out of a small room at the front of her house. With a focus on teaching, Waits dedicates part of her life, and her house, to ...

Growing up in Oak Park, Sam Walder was a student of the violin beginning at age 4, but as he made his way through the elite Illinois Math & Science Academy and later the University of Illinois' ...

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One of my best experiences while growing up here in Parkersburg was the opportunity I had to take violin lessons at Tavennerville Elementary School, which RESA occupied until recently. Just a few ...

Alton private violin instructor Kelsey Waits runs her violin studio out of a small room at the front of her house. With a focus on teaching, Waits dedicates part of her life, and her house, to ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - It’s a challenge to learn how to play violin at a young age and for Kentrell Amerson it’s even more difficult. That’s because Kentrell has only one hand. Nevertheless, he’s been ...

EAST TAMPA — Outside the Cyrus Green Community Center, cars often ride past with hip-hop blasting from the speakers. But inside the building, a different genre of music is catching on with youngsters ...

I started playing violin in 2008. I was 56 years old. My wife and I were on a weekend trip to New York. We had just seen some downtown theater and were making our way back to our hotel. On a mostly ...