Cross Lutheran Church in Yorkville hosted the Stoughton Norwegian Dancers Sunday, March 6. The performance was sponsored by Sons of Norway Polar Star Lodge 4-472, a Montgomery-based social-service ...
Norway’s traditional music scene gaining traction and been given a twist by a new clubby younger audience Folk music is having a resurgence in Norway spurred by a reclamation of the genre among ...
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 ...
For sisters, Jane Norman and Ann E. Black, don't really look alike. Ann, who is the eldest at 67 and is a self-professed tomboy, has short, dark hair and moves quickly about a room. When she was a ...
SYMPATHETIC STRINGS highlights the fiddle makers, musicians, dancers and apprentices who have formed an ardent, close-knit community of folk tradition practice around Norway’s beloved national ...
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 ...
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 ...