Bud Larsen built his first Hardanger fiddle when he was in the seventh grade. Now 80 years old, he’s built more than 40 of the instruments and repaired well over 100. He learned the craft from Gunnar ...
Filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s new documentary follows a group of teenagers learning life lessons at a traditional Norwegian folk high school. Documentaries focused on the teen experience ...
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 ...
Sons of Norway is holding a special Syttende Mai Folk Festival from 2-5 p.m. on Sunday at the Arctic Viking Lodge. The public ...
MinnPost’s journalists are out in the community to report on the things that are happening in Minnesota. Your support right now will help fund their work AND keep our news paywall-free. Before Thor ...
a story about how Norwegian home remedies were used to help save a young immigrant from losing his foot. The year was 1863. Mikkel Lokkensgaard was climbing into the attic of the family's cabin in ...
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Jean Russell Larson grew up hearing wonderful folk tales from her Norwegian grandmother. Carrying on the ...
“Emphasising the direct exposure of children to authentic sources of folk and cultural materials, [we expect Lok Virsa to] to grow into a formal study on the cultural heritage,” says Lok Virsa’s ...
“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 ...
Sons of Norway members were treated to a presentation on hand-crafted, traditional Norwegian textile items Thursday in the Gyda Varden Lodge in Grand Forks. The speaker, Cathy Flaat Forgit of Fertile, ...
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