Forty-five years ago, as a freshman in college, Cal Meineke was poking around a music department storage room and came across a rare Tyrolean violin made in the 17th century by the German Matthias ...

When Bob Dylan sang that "he who isn't busy being born is busy dying" on his epochal 1965 album "Bringing It All Back Home," he could have been talking about the precarious dynamic that either keeps a ...

LOWELL — Some things never change — at least when it comes to the annual Banjo and Fiddle Contests the Saturday after Labor Day on the lush lawn and vine-entwined stage of Boarding House Park. It has ...