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, ...

Harvey, who lives in Sioux City, began playing the Hardanger fiddle, a traditional Norwegian folk instrument, about a year ago, and it has completely changed her musical perspective. She owns two and ...

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 ...

GRAND FORKS -- A woman who graduated from Grand Forks Central High School three years ago is getting the opportunity to play fiddle for the king and queen of Norway. Megan Peterson is now a senior in ...

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 ...

PORT TOWNSEND — A popular band of master Nordic musicians, a fiddle trio from Norway, Sweden and the Shetland Islands, will make its first appearance in Port Townsend at 7 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $22 ...

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 ...