“Jeg elsker musikken din,” I tell Norwegian folk singer Juni Habel near the start of our virtual meeting, she in her country house an hour outside Oslo, and me in my country house outside New York ...

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 ...

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This evocation of an aspect of country life is part of a radical reinterpretation of Edvard Grieg’s 19 Norske Folkeviser (19 Norwegian Folk Songs), composed in 1896. The first piece in the cycle is ...

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 ...

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 ...

SETESDAL, A WINDING valley to the north of Kristiansand in southern Norway, was once a place of traditions little changed since medieval times. Chief among these were song and dance marked by ...

Modesty, she tells me, is what makes her distinctly Norwegian. Naming her cat Lisa, not so much. (“Lisa is not but a common name actually, but it is in The Simpsons,” she says.) And then, of course, ...