During the opening seconds of Mirra, an unusual sound leaps out – a grunting. It’s integral to a shifting aural pallete which ...

Norwegian Nils Økland is known for his versatility in exploring various musical styles and string instruments. He is renowned for his virtuosity on the Hardanger fiddle, a Norwegian violin with eight ...

He eventually moved on to jazz, too. But like so many whiz-bang moments in life’s shifting importance, Trueman recalls the first time he heard the Norwegian fiddle.

Minnesota fiddle builder brings new life to an old Norwegian folk instrument It can take several hundred hours to build a fiddle, but Brainerd's Bud Larsen believes anyone can build one with ...

And Concertmaster Steven Moeckel played two violins — his own and a rented Hardanger Norwegian fiddle, which has eight or nine strings, four of them played like a traditional violin while the ...

Benedicte Maurseth hails from Norway. Mirra, her fourth solo album since 2010, combines field recordings with electronics, ...

Their traditional Finnish fiddle sounds are supercharged with innovative arrangements and combined with mandola, cittern, double bass, guitar and dobro. The name Frigg (the Norse goddess of love and ...

The great American composer Leonard Bernstein’s comment, “Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable,” is probably understood by many people in Westby because Norwegians ...