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Happy Birthday, Northfield's Nordic Jam!

Welcome to the site for Multe, the band! If you're looking for Multe Music, the weekly hour-long radio show/podcast, click here. This week, Northfield's Nordic Jam celebrates its sixth (6th) anniversary. In 2002, Ruth Marie Sylte began to seek out … Continue reading

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Multe Entertains And Teaches at Valdres Samband

On Saturday, 28 June 2008, Multe performed at the annual meeting of the Valdres Samband at the Holiday Inn in Austin, Minnesota. The Valdres Samband is an organization of emigrant descendants from the Valdres valley of Norway and those interested … Continue reading

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GIG: Saturday, 24 May 2008 in Northfield, Minnesota

Multe is teaming up with The Grand Event Center in Northfield to offer a special event — a community dance! — on the Saturday evening of Memorial Day Weekend, 24 May 2008. Come and join us for an old-time dance … Continue reading

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GIG: Saturday, 15 March 2007 in Northfield, MN (St. Urho's Day)

Twin Cities' Finnish-American dance band, Finn Hall, and Northfield's own Nordic dance band, Multe, will co-headline the annual St. Urho's Day celebration on Saturday, March 15 at The Eagle's Club, 304 Water Street South in downtown Northfield. The cover charge … Continue reading

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A veritable smørgåsbord

There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good. ~ Edwin Denby At left is a picture of just a portion of the piles of coats spread like a smørgåsbord outside the J. Grundy's Reub'N'Stein … Continue reading

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GIG: Friday, 15 February 2008 in Northfield, Minnesota (ArtOrg Winter Concert Series)

Northfield's ArtOrg sponsors an evening of traditional old-time Scandinavian dance music on Friday, February 15 at the downtown J. Grundy's Reub 'N' Stein Upstairs at 503 Division Street, Northfield MN 55057. Two bands will split the bill — Multe and Foot-Notes from Decorah, … Continue reading

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New Multe Myspace Profile

Multe now has a new MySpace profile — and lots of great friends to go with it. Take a look! http://www.myspace.com/multemusic

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Multe.org opens, drupelets rejoice

We're up and running. At various times, we've used header images was taken by Norwegian folk musician and all-around great guy, Arne Moslåtten, on a wet Norwegian mountainside. These days, we're using a botanical drawing of a multe plant. The … Continue reading

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