Same Zgode …koje se ne mogu dogoditi! www.irijmusic.com Former Eluveitie fiddler, Meri Tadić, who was recently interviewed by yours truly in these pages, has released her first full length recording for her music project, Irij. “Same Zgode” is a beautiful mixture of Slavic/Pan-European Folk fiddle traditions and Croatian melodies. For those of you that are …
The Suvi Oskala Interview by Michael Lohr When it comes to mastering the five string Finnish fiddle, very few individuals have the skill and competence to rival Suvi Oskala. Suvi has been a mainstay on the Finnish Classic and Folk circuits for well over a decade. From 2002 to 2010 she studied the five string …
by Michael Lohr One of my primary journalistic goals when I first started writing for Fiddler was to expand our readership’s horizons far beyond familiar shores. I wanted to explore other worlds of the fiddle not normally seen or experienced on the streets of Nashville, the hollows of Appalachia or the verdant fields of …