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, ...

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 lives with his wife, Marlys, in a log cabin with a grass roof that could use a good weed-whacking, but don't be thrown off by the old-world aspects of this rural Brainerd abode. The Larsens ...

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 ...

Darlene Schroeder and the Sunburg Heritage Arts Initiative have been at the forefront of a revitalization of traditional Scandinavian hand crafts in Sunburg. The Initiative is also helping grow the ...

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 ...