If you’re looking for an inexpensive, yet comprehensive practice system designed to super-boost your skills and repertoire, then A Festival of Violin & Fiddle Styles will provide you with a golden pass into the musical imagination of the world.

The book includes practice techniques, 30 tunes with backing tracks and tune demos, video tutorials and juicy tidbits of wisdom from some of the top players in the world, including Darol Anger, Bruce Molsky, Mark Wood, Rachel Barton Pine, Tanya Kalmanovitch, Abby Newton, Aly Bain, Andrea Beaton, Beth Bahia Cohen, Chris Haigh, Dave Reiner, Calvin Vollrath, Joe Deninzon, Jason Anick, Jeremy Cohen, Katie Glassman, Andrea Hoag, Melinda Crawford, Don Roy, Paul Anastasio, Roby Lakatos, Tom Morley, Vicki Richards, Sam Bardfeld, and Yale Strom.

Styles include Old-Time, Bluegrass, Cajun, Franco-American, Western Swing, Blues, Swing, Pop/Rock, Irish, Scottish, Shetland Islands, Cape Breton, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Klezmer, Roma, Calentano, Galician, Afro-Cuban, Tango, Swedish, Bollywood, Québécois, and Métis.

Darol Anger, multi-genre fiddler, composer and performer:

“Julie Lyonn Lieberman has been opening doors and windows for string players to fly through

since the time that few knew those openings even existed. Her generosity and ability to

organize large amounts of information is remarkable, and we string players of the world are

the beneficiaries."

Bruce Molsky, old-time fiddler, banjo player, guitarist, and singer

“Julie Lyonn Lieberman has been teaching, performing and making fiddle music accessible

and beautiful for decades. This new book is a high point of her work, and a great entree into a

variety of styles that fiddlers will find enlightening.”

Mark Wood, Emmy award-winning composer and innovator, electric strings

“Julie Lyonn Lieberman has put together a wonderfully comprehensive overview of American

and world styles. She has been on the forefront of our string industry for almost forty years!

She is a respected musician and author of many powerful books on this topic and continues

to lead us into the wonderful exploration of the multiple opportunities for music on a bowed

instrument. Rock on, Julie! You are a treasure to our world!”

Rachel Barton Pine, concert violinist, recording artist

“Julie is one of the stars of the multi-genre string pedagogy world. Her new book is a brilliant

all-in-one primer that answers all the questions you have and many you didn’t even know

about. It’s sure to whet your appetite for more exploration into the amazing versatility of your

bowed string instrument. Brava!”

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