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 ...

Traditional dance music. Compact disc. Published by UNESCO and Auvidis in collaboration with the International Council for Traditional Music. Program notes in English and French (11 p. : ill.) ...

We enjoyed a visit recently from QQQ, an avant-Norwegian-fiddle-folk-band. Band leader and Princeton University Music Professor Dan Trueman plays a traditional Hardanger fiddle, distinctive for its ...

UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music of the World records, Ralph Rinzler Folklikfe Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music of the World records ...

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 is known for its natural beauty of glacial fjords and Northern Lights, but NPR world music contributor Betto Arcos visited Norway for the music. Arcos traveled to the Oslo World Music Festival, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Like many classical-music groups, the Apollo Chamber Players savor works by revered composers. But the Houston quartet also performs gypsy melodies from Hungary, Norwegian fiddle music and British ...

BRATTLEBORO -- Twilight Music presents Finnish and Norwegian fiddle band Frigg at Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery, 139 Main St., on Wednesday, May 2, at 7:30 pm. This dazzling young septet combines ...