Sentence examples for lead fiddle from inspiring English sources

The band usually played without a fiddle, so Mr. Watson learned how to play lead fiddle parts on the guitar, often complicated melodies executed at top speed.

Mandolin-player Bill Monroe and his string band, the Blue Grass Boys, discarded more recently adopted rhythms and instruments and brought back the lead fiddle and high harmony singing.

In the early 1950s Watson joined Jack Williams and the Country Gentlemen, a country-and-western dance band that lacked a fiddler, so he taught himself to play the fast-paced lead-fiddle parts on his guitar.

Somewhat surprisingly, only Pete Flood, the drummer and percussion player (whose instruments include a frying pan, a glockenspiel and an Ikea cutlery holder), has ordered a proper pint of English beer, while Jon Boden, lead vocalist, fiddle player and animating spirit, is sticking with a gin and tonic.

Old Crow Medicine Show Old Crow Medicine Show is the Nashville-based Americana quintette of Kevin Hayes (guitjo),
 Ketch Secor (lead singer, fiddle, harmonica, banjo), 
Morgan Jahnig (upright bass), 
Willie Watson (guitar, banjo),
 and Gill Landry (slide guitar, banjo).

Next week Pinchas Zukerman steps in to lead, from the fiddle, two Bach "Brandenburg" Concertos.

Coaches have even been known to gain a one-run lead and then fiddle with their catcher's shin guards until the ump calls the game for darkness.

This year Mr. Laredo began with a work he could lead from the fiddle — Bach's Concerto for Two Violins and Orchestra in D minor (BWV 1043), with Bella Hristova as the other soloist.

She sings lead and I fiddle by night.

Once in the city, the good-looking country boy who could write, paint and play the fiddle, led an itinerant existence that was temporarily interrupted when he went off to fight in the Spanish Civil War (a claim some still dispute, though Grove argues that here his self-mythologising propensities were to blame).

Swarbrick made the fiddle a lead instrument alongside Thompson's guitar, and immediately the two men were writing songs together.