Fiddling and Storytelling - Presenter: Robert “Bud” Larsen
Tue, Feb 11
|Mindekirken
Bud Larsen learned to build Hardanger fiddles from Gunnar Helland, a member of the Helland fiddle maker family from Norway who ran a violin shop in Fargo, ND. Bud has built more than 40 fiddles during his career. Not only does he build them he also has repaired more than 100.
Time & Location
Feb 11, 2025, 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Mindekirken, 924 E 21st St, Minneapolis, MN 55404, USA
About the event
Bud Larsen built his first Hardanger fiddle when he was in seventh grade. It can take several hundred hours to build a fiddle. Larsen believes anyone with enough patience and will can build one.
He learned the craft from Gunnar Helland, a member of the Helland fiddle maker family from Norway who ran a violin shop in Fargo, ND. Bud has built more than 40 fiddles during his career. Not only does he build them he also has repaired more than 100. Larsen currently lives in Brainerd, Minnesota. However, he works with apprentices in the Fargo-Moorhead area to restore folk instruments that for generations were gathering dust in attics and closets across the Midwest.
Unfortunately Bud Larsen lost his collection of 200 fiddles and luthier tools, their dog and two cats when his home burned in January, 2024