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 ...

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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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...