I've seen similar, Mark, but it's hell on your hands and shoulders to hold the fiddle so low. It's also very limiting in what and how well you can play. As an Appalachian girl, it's not an Appalachian style per se, it's just that so many old mountain fiddlers were self taught that they came up with all sorts of interesting methods, and that's one of them.

Richie, most fiddlers either sing and play in between verses, or let someone else sing.