And we refused to watch any more films about country fiddlers, no matter how good they were.

The dancers' costumes suggested cowboys and cowgirls, and there was a live square-dance caller onstage, where the orchestra members sat on a platform, done up as country fiddlers.

Folksy feeling - suggestions of square dances and country fiddlers.

The work, painted in 1847, depicts a black man leaning against a barn listening to a white country fiddler who is playing inside.

The others will be Diane Monroe and Karen Briggs, who play jazz, and Mark O'Connor, a country fiddler.

Americana is redefined here: gone are the pictorial images, although the three musicians from City Ballet's orchestra who are onstage wear suspenders like country fiddlers.

At times the austere modal quality of the harmony harks back to Renaissance music; that is, until the performers, like country fiddlers, bend the melodic lines with blue notes.

Dancing, complete with a country fiddler and cider, tops off the day's events at this 18th-century restored home of the Philips family.

Both of her parents were violin students at the Juilliard School in New York, and her maternal grandfather was a country fiddler.

The next maple event at Muscoot will be "Sugar on Snow," to the tune of a country fiddler.