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 ...

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: Stories of the Hardanger Fiddle e xplores the Scandinavian American history and culture surrounding the Hardanger fiddle as it is practiced in the Upper Midwest. The documentary ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Skaar family of Hixton has loaned its heirloom Hardanger fiddle to the Jackson County Historical Society for the summer months. The fiddle, which first belonged to the Skaars’ ...