William Congreve wrote, "Music has charms to soothe the savage breast." I'd add a corollary: "Playing music soothes the entire body." Many people take music lessons and find that it increases stress.

Fiddling away a week of summer vacation can be harder than it sounds. That is what the 14 members of the second annual Topeka Fiddle Camp discovered June 13-18 as they learned how to add old-time ...