GRAND FORKS – The Gyda Varden Sons of Norway lodge is hosting an in-person Syttende Mai lunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, May 17, to celebrate Norway’s Constitution Day, which is similar to ...

“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 ...

When Arna Rennan applied for fellowships to study traditional Norwegian folk music in Norway, she had a plan. "I had usefulness in mind," the singer/painter said, as she sat in her comfortable kitchen ...

Many a European country has a "national composer" whose music is enmeshed in its cultural identity. For Norwegians, that's Edvard Grieg, best known for his flamboyant Piano Concerto and evocative ...

On this new record, Konradsen bring us deeper into the fabric of life in their remote northern home and today are sharing album highlight “Scandinavian Dynamite,” a song reflecting on girlhood ...

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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, ...