An exploration of explores the history, lore, craft and haunting music of the Hardanger fiddle and the dances that accompany it as they are practiced in present day Norway. The national instrument of ...

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 ...

It turns out the grunting is a recording of a wild reindeer. Norwegian hardanger fiddle (the hardingfele) player Benedicte Maurseth’s thematically related follow-up to 2022’s Hárr interweaves ...

This 4th of July marked the 200th anniversary of the day a ship called the Restauration left Stavanger, Norway, on her way to New York City. This was the first boatload of Norwegian immigrants to come ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The ornately decorated fiddle belonged to the dance master who taught Robert Burns. At Carnegie, it will cap “Scotland’s Hoolie in New York.” Duncan Chisholm with the fiddle ...

Have I got a story for you, my friends! Oh, where to begin…How about the 4th of July, 1825? That’s when a ship called the Restauration left Stavanger, Norway, with 52 Norwegians bound for America.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The venerable quartet returned to Zankel Hall with a typically eclectic program and a newfound emotional intensity. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim The ...

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, 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 ...

Members of JUNO nominated, Canadian Folk Music Award winning neo-folk quintet Aerialists, Elise Boeur & Adam Iredale-Gray explore fiddle music in fluid, easy lockstep. Fiddler and Hardanger fiddle ...

EAST GRAND FORKS – A Nordic folk music duo is returning here to perform at 5 p.m. Monday, July 22, at the East Grand Forks Campbell Library. Admission is a freewill donation at the door. Vidar Skrede ...

BLACK EARTH - Ronald Leo Poast, born January 29, 1940, to Leo and Mary (LeVake) Poast, moved on to new horizons on Saturday, May 4, 2024. Born with the gift of creative hands and an inquisitive mind, ...