The Old Tyme Fiddlers will be the first to play on Sunday afternoon at the Fall Fiddle Festival in Beach Lake. Organizer Steve Jacobi expects other participants will bring bluegrass, Celtic, western ...

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, ...

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 36th annual Minnesota State Old Time Fiddle Championships was held Aug. 5 in the auditorium at Merritt Elementary School Auditorium in Mountain Iron. This year's first-place winner in the ...

DULUTH — Aaron Wilcox started to prepare for the 2022 Minnesota State Old Time Fiddle Championship immediately after last year's competition. "I come away from the contest with so many ideas for new ...

The toe-tapping, fiddle-loving atmosphere of the Country Harvest Hoedown is returning to Kuna this month. Entering its 42nd year, the hoedown will take place on Saturday, Nov. 16 at 2 p.m. at the Kuna ...

To be a champion kid fiddler, it helps to have a Hello Kitty tucked in your music case. “This is my secret box,” said 10-year-old McKenna Peterson. She slid a wooden lid to reveal a tiny glass ...

PENDLETON — Joe Sites leaned over a worn violin and shaved thin curls of wood from its interior, transforming its heavy tone into a lighter sound to deliver new life to the instrument. Sites doesn’t ...