SYMPATHETIC STRINGS highlights the fiddle makers, musicians, dancers and apprentices who have formed an ardent, close-knit community of folk tradition practice around Norway’s beloved national ...

Megan Peterson, a 2008 graduate of Grand Forks Central High School, was 12 years old when she attended a music camp and first heard someone playing a Norwegian Hardanger fiddle. "It sounded silvery, ...

Fargo-Moorhead is celebrating 200 years of Norwegian immigration with a concert featuring a handmade Hardanger fiddle.

DECORAH | Former Decorah resident Helen Harvey studied violin since she was a child, but has never enjoyed playing a stringed instrument as much as she does now. Harvey, who lives in Sioux City, began ...

Bud Larsen built his first Hardanger fiddle when he was in the seventh grade. Now 80 years old, he’s built more than 40 of the instruments and repaired well over 100. He learned the craft from Gunnar ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Bo’ Pgd. 1870. Ellef Johnsen ...

The Holmen Area Historical Society will explore musical roots with a discussion of the Norwegian hardanger fiddle, sometimes called the national instrument of Norway. Elizabeth Becker will be on hand ...

With the sounds of a traditional Norwegian fiddle, a viola, a classical guitar and a drum set, the music of QQQ suggests an odd kind of Americana. Geographically, it would probably live somewhere ...

ONALASKA, Wis.—Robert Gallagher learned to play fiddle when he was 12. Back then, his dad was known to fix a fiddle or two with the help of the family horse. “My dad used to pull hair from the horse’s ...