Maija Lindaas, a Moorhead native now living in Norway, plays the 2025 Hardanger fiddle, which hundreds of people had a hand in creating. It started as a block of wood and will debut Thursday night at ...

In a workshop tucked away in the countryside of western Victoria, a fiddlemaker creates unique Norwegian instruments, helping to spice up the dying craft. Traditionally used to play Norwegian folk ...

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 ...

Bud Larsen, Hardanger Fiddle maker and teacher, looks at part of a fiddle a student is making. It is part of a growing community of fiddle makers marking the 200th anniversary of the first arrival by ...

If you’re a fiddle fan, don’t miss the Hardanger fiddle program sponsored by the Sons of Norway Lodge. It will take place at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 9, at CrossPoint Church in Hutchinson. Admission is ...

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, ...

Darlene Schroeder and the Sunburg Heritage Arts Initiative have been at the forefront of a revitalization of traditional Scandinavian hand crafts in Sunburg. The Initiative is also helping grow the ...

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 ...

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