Student fiddlers perform an exercise using live dancers, 2005 Annual Workshops.

Every summer, our Hardanger Fiddle Music and Dance Workshops offer an extended weekend of intensive workshops in Hardanger fiddling and dancing. Participants from throughout the country gather in the upper Midwest for learning, playing, dancing, and fun. The annual business meeting HFAA also takes place during the weekend and is open to all.

Each year's Workshops features a master fiddler from a particular region in Norway who teaches, plays for dancing, and participates in a concert. American teachers complete the fiddle-teaching staff. In recent years, we have been able to invite dance teachers from Norway who teach the dancing associated with the master fiddler’s region.

Click on a link below to read about upcoming and past workshops.

2008 Hardanger Fiddle Music and Dance Workshop, Folklore Village, Dodgeville, Wisc.
2007 Hardanger Fiddle Music and Dance Workshops, Folklore Village, Dodgeville, Wisc.
2006 Hardanger Fiddle Music and Dance Workshops, Folklore Village, Dodgeville, Wisc.
2005 Annual Workshops, Folklore Village, Dodgeville, Wisconsin
2004 Annual Workshops, Folklore Village, Dodgeville, Wisconsin
AmeriKappleik, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota
2002 Annual Workshops, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota
2001 Annual Workshops, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota
2000 Annual Workshops, Folklore Village, Dodgeville, Wisconsin
1999 Annual Workshops, Folklore Village, Dodgeville, Wisconsin
Fifteenth Anniversary Workshops, Folklore Village, Dodgeville, Wisconsin
1997 Annual Workshops, Bethany College, Mankato, Minnesota

See a complete history of HFAA workshops (1983 - 2007)

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