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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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There’s an old marble theater inside a towering art deco skyscraper in Downtown Brooklyn. Architecture firm McKim, Mead & White designed the building not long after it built Penn Station. And though ...

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 ...

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 ...