Participants in the ASU Strings Project playing the violin on the second floor of ASU Gammage. Participants are taught string instruments by music education or performance majors at ASU. (Photo by ...

Visit any local farmers market, summer festival or coffee-house jam session, and you’ll likely see adults making music with fiddles, banjos and mandolins. It’s no surprise, then, that Vermont kids ...

When opening a high school for the arts this fall, would the Hazleton Area School District also start teaching students to play stringed instruments? That request came from supervisors of Butler Twp., ...

If you’re tired of hearing bad news about the state of arts education amid budget cuts and pressure on schools to focus most of their energy on boosting test scores in subjects like reading and math, ...

The strings the cellist is referring to is the area of music education called string teaching. Teaching school-age children the violin, viola, cello and double bass–instruments that are played with a ...

NORTH ADAMS - A lot of people know how to play the guitar, but few know how to make one. Nick Lenski does both, and now he's hoping to teach others how to craft their own guitar. Or mandolin. Or even ...

Darlene Dawson spent 34 years teaching children how to play stringed instruments in her hometown of Manassas before she retired. Last summer, three years after she and her husband moved to Orange ...

Syracuse, NY -- Sometimes you have to change the notes and craft a different tune. Budget cuts wiped out about 19 percent of the Syracuse school district’s arts and music staff, and students were in ...

Lindsay Fulcher’s parents loved music. They sang and played and even took part in a bell choir at their church. They were not classically trained. And that was the point. Fulcher did get that ...