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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
For many years, Bethany Lutheran College hosted a traditional lutefisk supper some time during the month of October for its college community as well as area residents. This year, instead of offering ...
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 ...
As Fedraheimen Lodge No. 140 of the Sons of Norway approaches its 100th birthday next March, members issued an invitation for others interested in Scandinavian culture to join up for the celebration ...