Gjallarhorn Sjofn
Nyckelharpa Orchestra - Byss-Calle
Värttinä Oi Dai
Värttinä Aitara
Harv Must
Wimme Cugu
Annbjørg Lien and
Väsen are featured on
CNN Worldbeat
Ranarim Till The Light of Day
Anders Norudde Himself
Download an Annbjørg Lien
WAVcard to share with friends
"The Launching of the Kalmar Nyckel"
- Documentary with soundtrack by
Hoven Droven will be offered by
American Public Television (as a free program) to PBS stations around the country, beginning
in June. Folks should call their local stations in April and encourage them to carry this APT offering.
The legendary Kalmar Nyckel, the Swedish Tall Ship that first landed in Delaware in 1638, comes
to life as the ship is painstakingly reconstructed using historic techniques and tools. This
program raises a flag to celebrate this
important Swedish-American connection and the art of a vanishing tradition: Tall Ship Building.
For more information about the program visit
www.teleduction.com/PAGES/kalmar.htm
To find your local PBS affiliate go to www.pbs.org/stationfinder/, type in your zip code and it will list the station's email / address, etc.
May 26: Entertainment Weekly's Jessica Shaw says Nordic
music is "in"!
(see the details)
Nordic Roots Festival 2000
pictures are now available.
Read this
profile
of NorthSide (ESD and Omnium too) in EarPollution
- Hedningarna's Karelia Visa appeared in "...a selection of rewarding world-music albums from the past year." Writer Jon Pareles says, "...hearty melodies that can seem like Celtic reels one moment, Slavic polyphony the next...While the lyrics are haunted by mortality, the songs sound square-jawed and sturdy, dug in against adversity."
1999
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December 16-23, 1999: On The Edge by David Fricke
Wizard Women of the North (Northside, CD) is truth in advertising, mesmeric evocations of
village loves and woodland dramas by contemporary female folk singers and instrumentalists
from Norway, Sweden and Finland. Susanne Rosenberg re-creates herding calls in an
ice-sculpture soprano; Tellu overdubs her voice into a cool-breeze choir in
"Tuulet" ("The Winds"); the fiddlers Annbjørg Lien and Hege Rimestad
play bracing songs of dance and contemplation.
The Boston Phoenix presents an overview of Nordic Music.
An audio postcard
from Wimme, courtesy CBC's Global Village
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NPR's All Things Considered broadcasts an interview with Sanna Kurki-Suonio and Totte Mattsson of
Hedningarna about their new release Karelia Visa.
Listen to it in RealAudio.
The first Nordic Roots music festival in Minneapolis included
the premiere of the dance performance Trä
by Joe Chvala's Flying Foot Forum with live music from
Hedningarna. Other festival artists included
Väsen,
Garmarna,
Hoven Droven,
JPP,
Triakel,
Troka,
Wimme, and
Norwegian hardanger fiddler Knut Hamre. Click here for 1999 festival information and pictures, plus a preview of the year 2000 fest.
Starting December 8th and continuing until January 15th,
RootsWorld, the
online magazine of world and roots music, is celebrating the music of
Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. In addition to their archives of
reviews, interviews and articles about Scandinavian and Nordic music, they
created special pages to highlight new material, with a special
emphasis on audio content. Click here
to go directly to the Festival.
1998
CBC's Global Village program presents a complete report on WOMEX, with video of performances, sound samples, and RealAudio interviews. Click here to read the report. You'll find two NorthSide Artists of The Day: Troka's Timo Alakotila on Day Two, and Väsen's Olov Johansson on Day Three.
A review of Väsen Whirled
by David Greenberger on NPR's All Things Considered.
Listen
to the complete review (requires
RealAudio.)
1997
NPR's All Things Considered
interviewed our 'fearless leader' and plays
excerpts from Väsen Whirled,
Hedningarna Hippjokk,
and Wimme Wimme.From the NPR website: "[18.] [SCANDANAVIAN MUSIC] -- Elizabeth talks with Rob Simonds (SIGH-munds), the co-founder of Rykodisc Records and the "creator" of NorthSide Records. NorthSide specializes in issuing contemporary Scandinavian "roots" music. Simonds introduces us to a number of bands, mostly made up of young players who are revitalizing the folk traditions of Scandinavia. Simonds believes that fans of world music in this country will be attracted to this energetic and interesting new take on centuries-old traditional music. They talk about how Simonds discovered this music, why it appeals to him, and who exactly is buying it. (STATIONS: The bands that are part of this round-up include Den Fule, Vasen, Wimme, Hedningarna and Swåp. All are about to be released on NorthSide Records, based in Minneapolis.) (7:30) ((STEREO))"