Rosin the Bow with Joe McHugh

A Music Interviews podcast by Rosin the Bow with Joe McHugh

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Joe McHugh is a storyteller, fiddler, and award-winning public radio journalist who travels the world exploring the many roles the violin family of instruments play in society today. He has interviewed gifted musicians who play a variety of styles—classical, folk, jazz, and rock—as well as master luthiers, dealers, collectors, tone wood producers, insurance agents, museum curators, rosin makers, string designers—even FBI agents who have helped recover stolen violins. The Rosin the Bow archive of recorded interviews will eventually become a permanent part of the Smithsonian Institution’s collection of violin-related materials.

Recent Episodes

"Say Old Man, Can You Play the Fiddle?" a short story by Joe McHugh
Published: August 29, 2025
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"Colonel" Greg Marsee - Kentucky Rosin Maker & Violin Maker & Orchestra Teacher
Published: August 22, 2025
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Mateo Messina - Film Composer
Published: June 1, 2025
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Trevor Stuart - North Carolina Mountains Fiddler and Violin Maker
Published: May 3, 2025
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Jonathan Cooper - Violin Maker from Maine
Published: May 1, 2025
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Purnaprajna Bangere & David Balakrishnan - Mathematics as Muse - Part 2
Published: April 3, 2022
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Purnaprajna Bangere & David Balakrishnan - Mathematics as Muse - Part 1
Published: April 3, 2022
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Bashar Matti - Iraqi-American Violinist
Published: March 7, 2022
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Amanda Forsyth - Cellist
Published: February 27, 2022
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Daniel Rouslin and the Mystery of the Hidden Violin
Published: February 20, 2022
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