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 ...

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 insular valley of Setesdal is opening itself to visitors, hoping to embrace the modern age while fighting to protect its unique traditions. In the steep-sided valley of Setesdal in Norway, the ...

About 15 years ago, Larry Trueman had a visitor to his Long Island laboratory. Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, then an undergraduate student in theoretical physics at Trinity College in Dublin, turned up for ...

The fiddle accompanied Lewis & Clark across the West. Fur trappers danced to it. Fiddle music followed the Métís as they sought a safe place south of the border, and they shared it with the Blackfeet.

Many music listeners may view classical music as the antithesis of folk music. But for violinist Maura Scanlin MUS ’19, both classical violin and traditional Irish and Scottish fiddle are her passions ...

The special performance is for the 50th-anniversary edition of the Vossa Jazz festival, held in the small lakeside Norwegian town of Vossevangen – Voss is the county; the name of the region is ...

EAST GRAND FORKS — Jeanne O’Neil, co-founder of North Country Fiddle and Dance, isn’t worried about the traditional songs and dances her organization helps put together going away anytime soon. While ...