Baroque Violin And Appalachian Fiddle Are Closer Than You'd Think

From ArtsJournal via Nashville Scene:

"Violinist Murray Somerville: "I watched this [Tennessee] fiddle player, and his bowing looked so much like a Baroque violinist's - the loose wrist, the grip high on the bow. When I asked where he'd learned these techniques, he said 'I just play the way my daddy taught me'."

To me, this is as at once endearing and frightening, frightening because I don't like to think of Baroque in the same universe as fiddling. Then again, it's Baroque as the early music fetishists understand it--and who knows, really, if they are right, or if being right matters all that much...