Fiddlers will frequently play in thirds and fifths, producing a sound that is characteristic to the bluegrass style.

Some German folk-rock bands play Scotch and Irish folk-rock, like The Dolmen and Fiddlers Green ( folk-punk ).

After 32 years, Aly Bain left to play with other musicians, most notably Phil Cunningham ( accordion ), and was replaced in 2002 by fellow Shetland fiddler Kevin Henderson of Fiddlers ' Bid.

For the first 3 series filming took place mainly in Widnes, Cheshire and also the neighbouring town of Runcorn, making heavy use of local landmarks such as the Silver Jubilee Bridge and Fiddlers Ferry power station.

The New York Philharmonic appear on several recordings of songs from the 1971 John Lennon album Imagine, credited as The Flux Fiddlers.

Every July, Grayson County hosts the Official Kentucky State Old Time Fiddlers Contest, which brings many elite fiddlers from several states to the Rough River Dam State Resort Park area.

* Fiddlers Jamboree – A two-day festival of Adirondack Mountain music and dance held under cover at Veterans ' Memorial Field in Athol, NY, just over the river from Warrensburg.

Weekly bluegrass jam sessions at The Andy Griffith Playhouse and the annual Mount Airy Fiddlers Convention also serve to attract old-time musicians from across the region and the world.

Heritage Records specializes in local musicians, and also releases recordings from the Old Fiddlers ' Convention in Galax, Virginia.

Artists performing included Daby Blade from Senegal, Spiers and Boden, Los Pacaminos, Richard Thompson, Shooglenifty, Sparks, Oysterband, Fiddlers ' Bid, Osibisa, Flook, Steeleye Span and The Larry Love Showband Conor Wickham.

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Apart from the early extension to Fiddlers Ferry, which provided better access to the River Mersey, and the 1775 extension to St Helens, the only major change came with the extension to Widnes in the 1830s.

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Because of perceived competition from the railway, the Sankey Canal was extended from Fiddlers Ferry to Runcorn Gap by what was known as the " New Cut ".

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Grayson County is also the home of other fiddlers ' conventions and old time and bluegrass festivals such as the Grayson County Fiddlers Convention, Fries Fiddlers Convention, and the Wayne C. Henderson Guitar Festival.

On 20 June 1918, Curtis returned to England where he went to Bermondsley Military Hospital in London for treatment for malaria, broken by a furlough, home leave to Fiddlers Green between 24 July until 3 August, the first time in four years.

He also co-founded The Duo ( with Mike Marshall ), Psychograss ( the bluegrass group including Mike Marshall, mandolin ; Todd Phillips, bass ; David Grier, guitar ; and Tony Trischka, banjo ), and Fiddlers Four ( with Michael Doucet, Bruce Molsky, violins ; and Rushad Eggleston, cello ).

Following the folk revivals of the second half of the 20th century, however, it has become common for less formal situations to find large groups of fiddlers playing together — see for example the Calgary Fiddlers, and Swedish Spelmanslag folk-musician clubs, and the worldwide phenomenon of Irish sessions.

He later became part of the group the Five MacDonald Fiddlers, organized by a fiddler named Johnnie Archie MacDonald.

From Quakers Yard roundabout ( locally known as ' Fiddlers Elbow '), of dual carriageway takes the road to the Pentrebach roundabout where the A4060 links, and then to the Merthyr Tydfil roundabout where the road meets the A465 and the dual carriageway ends.

In May 1925, Mountain City was the site of a musical gathering, the first Mountain City Fiddlers Convention, that is considered a landmark event in the modern history of Appalachian traditional music.

The first visible sign of decommissioning was controlled demolition at 09. 00 BST on 20 May 2007 of the four natural draught concrete cooling towers of the same hyperboloid design as conventional inland power stations such as Didcot, Drax, Ferrybridge and Fiddlers Ferry.

Starting off with youth theatre, he formed his first rock band, The Naughty Fiddlers, in 1979 and later that year his first poems were published.

The Forty Fiddlers was formed in the 1950s to promote the traditional fiddle style, which is a vibrant part of local culture today.

Athens is home to the Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddlers Convention, an annual event that takes place each October, on the Athens State University campus.

Payson is the site of the annual Arizona State Championship Old Time Fiddlers Contest, held in September.

The schoolhouse is the location for many annual events: the Spring Potluck, Summer Fiddlers Fest, October Heirloom Apple Festival, December Wreath Making party, February Sweethearts Dance, Spring Seed Exchange, and the annual handmade Quilt Raffle at the Autumn Potluck.

Fiddlers Ferry Power Station dominates Penketh, though it is in Cuerdley parish.

Galax is a small town that is home to the Old Fiddlers ' Convention, held since 1935 ; it is the largest and oldest festival of old-time Appalachian music in the country.

Though the Galax Old Fiddlers ' Convention is a major focal point for the Blue Ridge's vibrant folk music scene, the region is home to a major music festival season, which is inaugurated by the late March Fairview Ruritan Club Fiddlers ' Convention, which hosts a major regional competition in several categories.

The Forty Fiddlers was formed in the 1950s to promote the traditional fiddle style, which is a vibrant part of local culture today.

Fiddlers Ferry Power Station is a coal fired power station located in Cheshire in North West England, which is capable of co-firing biomass.

Most of the canal is still in water and much has been restored to navigable standard, with short sections at Fiddlers Ferry, Warrington and Spike Island, Widnes having locks into the Mersey which have allowed craft access to the canal for mooring since the locks were restored in the 1980s.

Shoshoni is home to the Oldtime Fiddlers ' Contest, while nearby Riverton hosts the Cowboy Poetry Round-up every October.

There is also a National Oldtime Fiddlers ' Hall of Fame.

This group generally consists of those who were playing during the " Golden Age " in the 1950s, including Wade Mainer and his Mountaineers, Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys, the Stanley Brothers, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs with the Foggy Mountain Boys, Hylo Brown and The Timberliners, Ervin T. Rouse, who wrote the standard " Orange Blossom Special ", Reno and Smiley, the Sauceman Brothers, Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, Jim & Jesse, Jimmy Martin and the Osborne Brothers, Red Allen ( who also recorded with the Osborne Brothers for MGM in the mid-fifties ), Mac Wiseman, Mac Martin and the Dixie Travelers, Carl Story and his Rambling Mountaineers, Buzz Busby, The Lilly Brothers, Bill Clifton and Jim Eanes.

He continued to appear occasionally on television, including playing the leads in Fiddlers Three ( 1991 ) and Harnessing Peacocks ( 1992 ) and an appearance on the American show Magnum, P. I.

In 1991, Wilcox returned to sitcom as Ros West in a Yorkshire Television sitcom called Fiddlers Three opposite Peter Davison before playing the character of Ivy Sandford in the pilot of Frank Skinner's Blue Heaven on Channel 4 in 1992-the show then went on to became a series.

Weiser bills itself as the " Fiddling Capital of the World " and the National Oldtime Fiddlers ' Contest has been held each year since 1953.

There are many attractions in the Robbins area such as the annual Farmers Day, the Northern Moore Fiddlers Convention, etc.

* John W. Ramsey-Musician Banjo Player for bluegrass band, " The Fiddlers "

Walt Disney would later have Harpo ( with Groucho and Chico ) appear as one of King Cole's " Fiddlers Three " in the Silly Symphony Mother Goose Goes Hollywood.