Archive of Past Workshops
Our Hardanger Fiddle Summer Music and Dance Workshop offers 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. Fiddlers without instruments of their own are invited to enroll in our Workshop Hardingfele Loan Program. Click on a link below to read about past workshops and festivals.
We also offer a Winter Workshop ("Open Hearth") each February, held online via Zoom. Each year it includes classes with two levels of Hardanger fiddle playing taught by Norwegian master fiddlers; plus dance classes taught by master Norwegian dancers and accompanied by live Hardanger fiddling; plus special presentations.
Archived Workshops (note not all have links to archived workshop information):
"Open Hearth": HFAA's 2024 Online Winter Workshop, February 2024
2023 Hardanger Fiddle Music and Dance Workshop, Folklore Village, Dodgeville, Wisconsin
"Open Hearth": HFAA's 2023 Online Winter Workshop, February 2023
2022 Hardanger Fiddle Music and Dance Workshop, Folklore Village, Dodgeville, Wisconsin
"Open Hearth": HFAA's 2022 Online Winter Workshop, February 2022
2021 Online Workshop (July 2021; held online)
"Open Hearth": HFAA's 2021 Online Winter Workshop, February 2021
2020 Online Festival (July 2020; held online)
2019 Hardanger Fiddle Music and Dance Workshop, Folklore Village, Dodgeville, Wisconsin
2018 Hardanger Fiddle Music and Dance Workshop, Folklore Village, Dodgeville, Wisconsin
2017 Hardanger Fiddle Music and Dance Workshop, Folklore Village, Dodgeville, Wisconsin
2016 Hardanger Fiddle Music and Dance Workshop, Folklore Village, Dodgeville, Wisconsin
2015 Hardanger Fiddle Music and Dance Workshop, Folklore Village, Dodgeville, Wisconsin
2014 Hardanger Fiddle Music and Dance Workshop, Folklore Village, Dodgeville, Wisconsin
2013 Hardanger Fiddle Music and Dance Workshop, Folklore Village, Dodgeville, Wisconsin
HFAA Spring Workshop Northwest at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA, April 13, 2013
2012 Hardanger Fiddle Music and Dance Workshop, Folklore Village, Dodgeville, Wisconsin
2011 Hardanger Fiddle Music and Dance Workshop, Folklore Village, Dodgeville, Wisconsin
2010 Hardanger Fiddle Music and Dance Workshop, Folklore Village, Dodgeville, Wisconsin
2009 Hardanger Fiddle Music and Dance Workshop, Folklore Village, Dodgeville, Wisconsin
2008 Hardanger Fiddle Music and Dance Workshop, Folklore Village, Dodgeville, Wisconsin
2007 Hardanger Fiddle Music and Dance Workshop, Folklore Village, Dodgeville, Wisconsin
2006 Hardanger Fiddle Music and Dance Workshop, Folklore Village, Dodgeville, Wisconsin
2005 Annual Workshop, Folklore Village, Dodgeville, Wisconsin
2004 Annual Workshop, Folklore Village, Dodgeville, Wisconsin
AmeriKappleik (2003), St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota
2002 Annual Workshop, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota
2001 Annual Workshop, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota
2000 Annual Workshop, Folklore Village, Dodgeville, Wisconsin
1999 Annual Workshop, Folklore Village, Dodgeville, Wisconsin
Fifteenth Anniversary Workshop (1998), Folklore Village, Dodgeville, Wisconsin
1997 Annual Workshop, Bethany College, Mankato, Minnesota
See the complete listing of HFAA Workshops from 1983 to the present.