"Charles De Lints' fantays novel 'Widdershins' has a couple of fiddlers as protagonists. I believe that they appear in other books of his, too, though I've only read one of 'em."

Folk music runs like a silver thread through the books of Charles de Lint. He's a fiddler himself, and often uses quotations from the lyrics of, inter alia, Robin Williamson, Richard Thompson, and Trad, as chapter headings. His novel The Little Country mentions Kathryn Tickell (but only in passing).

"The novel Bimbos of the Death Sun has a Scottish folk singer character."

I've waited a long time to read a sentence like that.