Kathleen Menke watches Katharina Guhlmann perform during the Northern Lights Showcase on Saturday, March 8, 2025, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Kathleen Menke watches Katharina Guhlmann perform during the Northern Lights Showcase on Saturday, March 8, 2025, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

Katharina Guhlmann was a last-minute addition to the Northern Lights Showcase Saturday and judging by the crowd’s reaction, she was a welcome one. 

The roving violinist who hails from Dresden, Germany opened her set with an original piece, “The Song from the Sea.” 

“It’s funny,” she said during a later interview. “When…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...