Editor's note: In anticipation of the National Folk Festival July 9-11 in Uptown Butte, The Montana Standard is profiling selected musicians who are coming to town to perform. Following is one of ...

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 ...

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 ...

A taste of Scandinavia! Norwegian-American fiddler Karen Solgеrd, from Minnesota, joins us live in the studio for folk music and conversation. ... Sep 08, 2006 — A taste of Scandinavia!

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 ...

Members of JUNO nominated, Canadian Folk Music Award winning neo-folk quintet Aerialists, Elise Boeur & Adam Iredale-Gray explore fiddle music in fluid, easy lockstep. Fiddler and Hardanger fiddle ...