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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This hardanger fiddle was made by an unknown maker in Telemark, Norway, about 1890. It is made of a two-piece table of cedar, one-piece back of slab-cut birch with broad irregular figure descending to ...