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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The medieval Gol Church at Oslo's Norsk Folkemuseum: a symbol of Norway's identity as resonant as the country's music But Slagr, despite the presence of a rootsy Hardanger fiddle in their ranks, are ...