Fiddle and dance, then dance with the fiddler. Then sing a peppy duet. That’s how they make fine folk music in the good ol’ U.S.A. but also in places like Norway. Half of Norway sits north of the ...
Every country has its token composer: Finland has Sibelius, Poland has Chopin, the U.S. has Copland, and Norway has Edvard Grieg. Grieg cultivated a love of his country's folk idioms, and some of his ...
A group of Norwegian folk dancers played folk songs and danced on Monday at their motel near the beach. Norway’s best traditional dancers are in Florida this week for the opening of the Norwegian ...
Meg Mabbsa nd Bill Gooch, Swedish Norwegian folk dance instructors from Knoxville, Tenn., are pictured during a recent two-day session with the local Thule Swedish Dance Team. The Thule Swedish Folk ...
NEW YORK - The Washington Island Scandinavian Fest Dancers received quite the present for their 75th anniversary. The group was named a winner of a $30,000 grant from the American-Scandinavian ...
Gåte is a Norwegian progressive folk band that formed back in 1999, went on hiatus in the mid 2000s, and returned with a new album, Svevn, in 2018. They followed it this year with a new EP, Til Nord ...
Geitungen, a folk music trio from Norway, will perform at 7 p.m. Monday at the Gyda Varden Sons of Norway Lodge in Grand Forks, playing tunes from its home area Rogaland. Musicians Håvard Ims, Olav ...
A researcher is looking for splashes of Norwegian culture in Minnesota for an episode of a Norwegian TV series called “Uncle in America.” “The more unusual the better,” Sven Storberget wrote in an ...
With flashing feet and gaily colored costumes, the story of Brooklyn’s ethnic diversity will be told tomorrow through folk dancing. “Folk Feet,” staged by the Brooklyn Arts Council at Brooklyn College ...