Last night I watched a program on PBS called "The Art of the Violin". They were talking about and showing movie clips of great violinists from the thirties through today. It was a good study of what made violinists like Heifitz, Elman, Menuhin, Stern, Kreisler, etc great and how they were different from each other. As I was watching Menuhin (I think) playing one of the Brahms Hungarian dances I was comparing his playing with that of the fiddle player (Marco Dreyer) in an Eastern Europian band called Harmonia who I had just heard play that peice earlier in the day. It made me contemplate a similar program which would be called "The Art of the Folk Violin".
So, who would you feature on such a program and why? I'd like to see some of your ideas before I write down some of mine.