At just 10 years old, Brandon Hoff picked up a violin and fell in love. Just a few years later, Mark Wood — the inventor of the first solid-body electric violin and world-leading rock violinist — ...

An electric violin doesn’t just offer a musician a whole new world of sounds and dynamics, it can also be unplugged to allow for silent practicing. The best model is crafted to have the same feel as ...

DALY CITY, Calif. (KGO) -- They're rare and expensive instruments, and a few days ago, the man who's toured the world playing them woke up to find they'd been stolen. Dave Kim has built a career ...

Nina DiGregorio always wanted to play rock and roll — but doing that on the violin wasn’t much of an option when she was growing up in upstate New York, she said. Today, however, she’s known as the ...

A few weeks ago, I saw a Facebook event posting for an “electric violinist.” Now there’s a listing you don’t see every day when looking for “live music” in Hendersonville. Granted, sometimes I see ...

It all started for me when I had a dream in 8th grade that I was on stage in front of thousands of people playing the violin. I acted upon that dream and began to play my ninth-grade year in high ...

Lindsey Stirling is one of those entertainers who is so multifaceted, you need to take a full breath to describe all that she is: electric violinist, dancer, YouTube star, composer, author and ...

For Mia x Ally, an instrumental duo performing at Brighton Music Hall on Jan. 5, it all started with a sea shanty. Mia Asano, a 2022 Berklee of College of Music graduate, had been posting TikTok ...