North Carolina-native fiddler Andrew Finn Magill is a Fulbright Fellow, North Carolina Arts Council Fellow, All-Ireland fiddle finalist, and 2024 Seifert Jazz violin finalist in Poland.
Magill has been featured on PBS, TEDx and multiple times on NPR. His 2016 album of Irish traditional music, “Roots” debuted at number #46 on the folk DJ charts and he has released seven albums since. Magill grew up studying traditional Irish music, oldtime, bluegrass and swing every summer with the best fiddlers in the world at the Swannanoa Gathering. Since then he has been featured on PBS playing with John Doyle, has toured France with Open the Door for Three, and as of 2018, has toured extensively with Solas guitarist Alan Murray.
Magill has received acclaim from BBC Folk Musician of the year Martin Hayes who says Magill is a “leading fiddler in a new generation of musicians.” He has received equal praise in the jazz world such as Snarky Puppy’s Zach Brock, who says Magill displays “effortless virtuosity.” Berklee’s Matt Glaser describes Magill as “an extraordinary violin virtuoso,” and Grammy-winning Americana artist Tim O’Brien says “I’m gonna listen for Finn Magill.”
Instructor – Fiddle
2019, 2025