Oh, my, here you are talking about one of my passions! May I recommend Natalie MacMaster of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, for starters? She has an instructional video for sale, but I don't know where you are likely to find it in the United States. I bought a copy from her, but gave it to a fiddler friend, so I don't even have the address anymore. I would suggest that if all else fails, send an email to natalie@ns.sympatico.ca . That address will reach her mother, Minnie MacMaster, who will be more than glad to tell you where you may purchase it, I am sure.

You can find info on her first three albums, which have been released in the states by Rounder at: http://www.rounder.com/rounder/catalog/byartist/m/macmaster_natalie/

I looked at all the major online CD sellers, but only tunes.com has sound clips of everything from her first three albums. CDnow and CDuniverse have none, and Music Boulevard has only a few. I checked Elderly, and they have all her albums, including her newest, My Roots Are Showing, which has not yet been released in the U S, but which is due to be released here this fall, I understand. A note about her first album, Compilation~~it is a recent CD release taken from her first two cassettes recorded when she was 16 and 18 years old, but don't let that put you off. It is still remarkably enjoyable stuff!

There are complete real audio versions of several of her tunes from No Boundaries (scratchy 8kbps, though) at: http://www.warnermusic.ca/macmaster/nobounds.html

In Canada, her music is on Warner Canada, and overseas on Greentrax.