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 ...

HARDANGERFJORD, Norway--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Trolltunga, Norway's most spectacular rock formation, has become a dream wedding destination. This year, a record number of couples exchanged vows on the ...

My husband, David and I fell in love with Norway’s dramatic coastline from the bow of a cruise ship a few years ago. Almost three years of pandemic travel idle later our wanderlust engines were fired ...

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 ...

Tucked away in the serene Hardangerfjord, Norway, Iris is housed inside the ellipsoid-shaped, shimmering floating art installation known as the Salmon Eye ...

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, ...

Norway's Hardangerfjord recently experienced a phytoplankton bloom A satellite image showed the fjord as turquoise because of the bloom A recent study found such blooms have become more common in ...

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 ...