Catriona MacDonald began playing as a child back in 1981. Less than two years later, she took both the title of Young Fiddler of the…
Artist Profiles: Catriona MacDonald
Tag: fiddle
Artist Profiles: Cady Finlayson
Cady Finlayson specializes in spirited Irish fiddle music with American Folk and World Music Influences. From her first show in a small Irish pub in…
Artist Profiles: Calum MacKinnon
Calum is from the island of Tiree in the Hebrides. He started learning the fiddle at an early age, from a neighbor, Willie Kemp, who…
Artist profiles: Synnøve S. Bjørset
Synnøve S. Bjørset is one of the leading performers of traditional Hardanger fiddle music today. At her concerts she presents a collection of little-known tunes…
Artist Profiles: Susanne Lundeng
Susanne Lundeng was born in 1969 in Bodø, Nordland County, Norway. She studied violin at the local music school, starting at the age of nine.…
Artist Profiles: Mats Eden
Mats Edén was born October 30, 1957 in Södertälje, Sweden. has his roots in the rich soil of Värmland. A member of acclaimed Swedish folk…
Artist profiles: Majorstuen
Majorstuen is an ensemble of virtuoso fiddlers who play Norwegian roots music. All of them play the fiddle (violin), although they occasionally will use the…
Artist Profiles: Leif Rygg
Leif Rygg was born in 1940 in Voss, in western Norway. He’s one of Norway’s leading Hardanger fiddle players. Rygg began playing the fiddle at…
Artist Profiles: Lars Underdal
Lars Underdal was born in 1971 in Vinje in Telemark (Norway), has studied with several fiddlers and at the renowned Ole Bull Academy in Voss.…
Artist Profiles: Knut Hamre
Knut Hamre was born in 1952 in Granvin, in Hardanger. He is one of Norway’s leading Hardanger fiddlers, and has created a distinctive mode of…