Loretta Kelley is America's foremost player of the traditional Hardangerfiddle (hardingfele), an intricately decorated fiddle native to Norway withsympathetic strings, a nearly flat bridge and a 300-year unbroken aural tradition. Loretta specializes in slått music, dance tunes rooted in the 18th century with sometimes unique asymmetrical rhythms, modal scales with "floating" intervals, and haunting tonalities. (from Azalea City Recordings)