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Fryer Feature: Fiddlers’ Frolics

Every family has its legacies.With the Fryers it has been fiddles.The music, musicians, the fiddles themselves.It’s a legacy of passion for music brought to America from the Gaelic world.Tunes passed through the centuries from fiddler to fiddler.Is it any surprise that in Texas, the music became elevated to an art form?As it was explained to me, “In Texas, we don’t saw the fiddle.We play the fiddle.”The words of a Hall of Fame Texas fiddler Dale Morris, Sr.

I’ve known a lot of Hall of Fame fiddlers, actually each one of them inducted over the past 49 years at the Texas State Championship fiddling contest.Log in to KTRH.com and our newsfeed and Facebook page because I’ll be posting all the action and music of Cajun night, BBQ cook-off, Gone to Texas out of state fiddler competition, and the new Texas State Champion at the Fiddlers Frolics in Hallettsville.


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