Athabaskan fiddle (or fiddle music, fiddling) is the old-time fiddle style which the Alaskan Athabaskans of the Interior Alaska have developed to play the fiddle (violin), solo and in folk ensembles. Fiddles were introduced in this area by Scottish, Irish, and French Canadian fur traders of the Hudson’s Bay Company in the mid-19th century. Athabaskan fiddling is a variant of fiddling of the American southlands.