Leyla McCalla & Cedric Watson - "Pa Janvier"

Sharon Shannon Big Band - The bag of cats [Live at Dolan´s]

Chance McCoy & J.P. Harris - Fiddling Blues

Chance McCoy & J.P. Harris - Fiddling Blues

Darol Anger's 8 Paths of Improvisation: on the violin

Darol Anger has developed a few interesting techniques for fiddle improvising and he teaches online and there are loads of videos of his lessons on youtube. he's one of the people who developed the 'chop bowing' technique, which is kind of a percussive rhythm improvisation that g

Casey Driessen - Sugarfoot Rag - Dunegrass 2008

Some wild improvising

Regina Carter Quintet: The Jazz Violin (Performance/Demonstration)

jazz violin gets overlooked as 'fiddle' because sometimes it's not as traditionally dance-rhythmic but the improvisation and other fun techniques certainly apply. This is from Kennedy Center's jazz education projects- hopefully they'll stay up and survive the current situation ov

Billy Contreras-Country fiddler/ modern jazz master- Creative Strings Podcast

this guy is an absolute monster fiddler who does the western contest fiddling and jazz styles, and is a session player on many retro country albums in the last few years. This is an old podcast by Christian Howes who's also worth following - he makes educational content and teach

Hangman's Reel / Le Reel Du Pendu - Shane Cook & Emily Flack

Fiddle and amazing foot percussion:

Joshua Hedley - Fresh Hot Biscuits [Official Music Video]

Joshua Hedley- Fresh Hot Biscuits (western swing)

50 Improvisation Ideas for Violin/Fiddle- dustyfiddles youtube

This is such a great video of mostly fiddle blues licks. I wish there was much more from this fiddler's youtube channel