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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When I opened one of the fiddle cases, I jumped up and down, did a dance, and made some kind of squeaky noise. It was a ...

Fargo Spelemannslag, with members from Minnesota and North Dakota, is an eclectic group of talented musicians dedicated to inspiring, strengthening and energizing the Hardanger fiddle music and dance ...

Warpeha composes for the hardanger d’amore, a violin-like instrument related to the traditional Norwegian hardanger fiddle. It has five top strings and five sympathetic strings that resonate ...

Sue Tillotson and Jim Cunningham are pictured during a performance in front of the Mozart Club. Submitted photo On Oct. 12, the Mozart Club enjoyed a program of “Scottish Fiddle meets Hardanger Fiddle ...

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 ...

The group is based out of Fargo, with members ranging in skills from professional musicians to beginners, and in age from teenagers to senior citizens. All specialize in playing the Hardanger fiddle, ...

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 medieval Gol Church at Oslo's Norsk Folkemuseum: a symbol of Norway's identity as resonant as the country's music Solo, the Hardanger fiddle player Erlend Apneseth was more traditionally minded, ...

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 ...