Nora Taksdal plays the viola and is the principal violist of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra Nora Taksdal plays the viola – the slightly larger sibling of the violin – and is the principal violist of ...

We are very happy to announce that guitar player and composer JON LARSEN today is awarded the BUDDY PRIZE 2007. This is the highest ranking prize in Norwegian music. Jon Larsen is famous for his ...

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 ...

Trine Sennerud Melby and Tormod "Lillebror" Vasaasen, renowned folk musicians from Aurskog, Norway, will perform a free public concert at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 21, at the Scandinavian Hall, 1801 ...

SKIEN, Norway & MINOT, N.D. (KMOT) - May 17 is Norwegian Constitution Day, and some locals are in Norway to celebrate. A group of roughly 45 musicians from North Dakota are currently in Norway for ...

Inspired by The Shadows, shadows bands spring up across the country in the sixties. And the parent generation calls their music barbed-wire music. Surrounded by screaming girls, parties, and scandals, ...