Students play their fiddles during Southeast Missouri State University Music Academy's Exploring American Fiddle Styles class taught by Steve Schaffner at the River Campus on Wednesday, July 20, 2016.

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PORT TOWNSEND — An intentional, international community has just formed at Fort Worden State Park. It’s called Fiddle Tunes, and it sounds like joy. Centrum’s 43rd Festival of American Fiddle Tunes ...

PORT TOWNSEND — The thing about the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes: It’s far more than fiddling. Sure, major folks are gathering at Fort Worden State Park today for Fiddle Tunes, as the 36-year-old ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Within hours of arriving at Fiddle Camp in Stillwater this week, students were learning the art of improvising from two masters.