GRAND FORKS (AP) -- A woman who graduated from Grand Forks Central High School three years ago is getting the opportunity to play fiddle for the king and queen of Norway.
Megan Peterson is now a senior in music at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. The Grand Forks Herald reported that she will play a 200-year-old Hardanger fiddle rescued from a Midwestern barn for Norway King Harald V and Queen Sonja on Friday. A Hardanger fiddle is similar to a violin and often is called the national instrument of Norway.
The king and queen are on an eight-day tour of Minnesota and Iowa. Peterson is a member of a group of Hardanger fiddle players from St. Olaf who will play for the royalty during a lunch at the college.
