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 ...

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, ...

This evocation of an aspect of country life is part of a radical reinterpretation of Edvard Grieg’s 19 Norske Folkeviser (19 Norwegian Folk Songs), composed in 1896. The first piece in the cycle is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kathy Anderson Westby Area Historical Society May 11, 2022 May 11, 2022 0 The great American composer Leonard Bernstein’s comment, “Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable,” is ...

About 15 years ago, Larry Trueman had a visitor to his Long Island laboratory. Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, then an undergraduate student in theoretical physics at Trinity College in Dublin, turned up for ...

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 ...

Classical music lovers, as well as some fans of animation and video games, may know Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg’s famous "Peer Gynt," but they certainly do not know it in the innovative, yet ...

BRATTLEBORO -- Twilight Music presents Finnish and Norwegian fiddle band Frigg at Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery, 139 Main St., on Wednesday, May 2, at 7:30 pm. This dazzling young septet combines ...