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Scandinavian
Fiddling Resources I collected the following resources for a Scandinavian Fiddling Workshop at the American String Teachers' Association National Conference in Columbus, Ohio, March 29, 2003. For my "Overview of Scandinavian Fiddling" click here. Also see my article Scandinavian Fiddling for String Teachers. |
Scandinavian
Music and Dance Camps:
Folklore Village Swedish
Dance and
Music Weekend (Dodgeville, WI, last week in October)
Nordic Fiddles and
Feet
(Buffalo Gap, WV, first week in July)
Northern Week at Ashokan (Ashokan,
NY, fourth
week in July)
Scandia Camp Mendocino
(Mendocino, CA, second week in June)
American Swedish Institute Spelmanslag
(Minneapolis)
Northern California Spelmanslag
Scandia DC Spelmanslag
(Washington, DC)
Seattle Skandia Spelmanslag
Skandia Folkdance Society (Seattle)
Scandia New York
Speledans
(Boston)
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Scandinavian Tune Transcriptions:
--Karen Myers's "Blue Rose" Scandinavian Folk Music.
Outstanding site with hundreds of tunes and
excellent tune
analysis.
--Henrik Norbeck’s site. Lots of tunes, good
information.
--Danish "Folketshus"
site.
--Institutt for musikkvitenskap
(excellent Norwegian site, compliments of Karen Solgard)
Festivals and
Gatherings:
Nisswa-Stämman
great fiddler's gathering in the upper Midwest.
Jamestown (NY) Scandinavian
Folk
Festival
FinnFest
various places around the US, late summer.
The Gordon Ekvall
Tracie Music Collection.
The Robert Andresen Collection
at the Mills
Music Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Published sources:
--Fichtenbaum, Matt. “Scandinavian Fiddling.”
In Mel Bay’s Old Time Fiddling Across
America. Pacific, MO:
Mel Bay, 1989, pp. 162-68 + CD. Three great tunes in contrasting styles.
Recordings:
Björn Ståbi and Ole Hjorth.
Folk Fiddling from Sweden. (1970) LP: Nonesuch
H72033
Hardanger fiddler Karen Solgård
Andrea Hoag and Loretta Kelley. Hambo
in
the Barn Azalea City ACCD-9601
Loretta Kelley. AmerikaSpel Azalea City ACCD-9603
Bruce
Sagan and Andrea Hoag. Spelstundarna (1993); With Friends (2002) available from Bruce Sagan.
Laurie Hart and Sarah Cummings. Fiddlespel.
available from Ted Crane (2000)
American
Swedish Institute Spelmanslag. (2000) available from Music Outfitters.
Äkta Spelmän:
Swedish Fiddle Music. (2002) available from Music Outfitters.
Skandia: A Definitive Collection of Traditional Nordic Rhythms.
contact folkdancing.com
or Trella Hastings
at the Skandia Music
Foundation
Finn Hall
(w/ Cheryl Paschke)
(2002) contact: info@finnhall.com
Nordika (Niles and Debbie Hokkanen,
Lee Simonson) (1993)
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