good music with violins.

[daryn]

ants marching

[bbones31]

Anything by Miri Ben-Ari if you're into Hip-Hop, I really enjoy 'Live It Up' with John Legend or 'Fly Away.'

[BEP]

Clann Zu - Rua

[KJS]

Anything by Dirty Three. They are a 3 piece from Melbourne: violin, drums, guitar, no vocals. Haunting melodies, frenetic parts, very improvisational sounding, but not jazzy. I love it.

I would rate their albums best to worst:

Horse Stories
Ocean Songs
She Has No Strings Apollo
Dirty Three
Whatever You Love, You Are

KJS

[sykotic]

Yeah, Yellowcard is awesome.

[illeagle]

Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys: Western Swing

[pulledagroin]

Try to find The Section Quartet. Saw them at Coachella this year and they were really cool. String Quartet who plays covers of well known rock songs. Their cover of a radiohead song (can't remember which right now) was amazing.

No vocals.

[Hornacek]

Classical Music- imo best violin song EVER is the Beethoven Violin Concerto. I f'in LOOVE that song.

[sightless]

vivaldi - 4 seasons

[Macdaddy Warsaw]

From the Friday Night Lights soundtrack, Your Hand in Mine by The Explosions in the Sky is a good song. The original version doesn't have strings, though.