While I was looking for Taj, I kept running into Yanni at the Taj Mahal.  I did watch that video twice, and found this woman, Karen Briggs, on violin (fiddle) and she's quite a star.

This piece is a performance at the Acropolis.  I'm not a big fan of Yanni, but I do love fusion.  This embodies fusion, and is quite exciting to me.  It contains a violin duel between Briggs (the beautiful, passionate woman in red), and the conductor Shardad Rohani.  Karen Briggs gives me chills that start at the base of my spine and end at the top of my head. There is some stunning tribal percussion in this also.  Within Attraction

So, off I go looking for more Karen Briggs, and what do I find?  Karen Briggs, Bella Fleck (be still my beating heart) on the banjo and Stanley Clarke on bass.  A little improv