Every country has its token composer: Finland has Sibelius, Poland has Chopin, the U.S. has Copland, and Norway has Edvard Grieg. Grieg cultivated a love of his country's folk idioms, and some of his ...

NEW YORK - The Washington Island Scandinavian Fest Dancers received quite the present for their 75th anniversary. The group was named a winner of a $30,000 grant from the American-Scandinavian ...

Cross Lutheran Church in Yorkville hosted the Stoughton Norwegian Dancers Sunday, March 6. The performance was sponsored by Sons of Norway Polar Star Lodge 4-472, a Montgomery-based social-service ...

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 ...

A researcher is looking for splashes of Norwegian culture in Minnesota for an episode of a Norwegian TV series called “Uncle in America.” “The more unusual the better,” Sven Storberget wrote in an ...

Meg Mabbsa nd Bill Gooch, Swedish Norwegian folk dance instructors from Knoxville, Tenn., are pictured during a recent two-day session with the local Thule Swedish Dance Team. The Thule Swedish Folk ...

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 ...

With flashing feet and gaily colored costumes, the story of Brooklyn’s ethnic diversity will be told tomorrow through folk dancing. “Folk Feet,” staged by the Brooklyn Arts Council at Brooklyn College ...