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The most important way that Nordic artists can use Facebook

I think I could also have named this posting "The single biggest mistake I see Nordic artists making on Facebook" — but I'd prefer to keep this positive. :-)
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MultePod presents: Juleevengeliet

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Juleevengeliet (Luke 2:1-20)
As a special holiday treat to our listeners, Multe Music is pleased to share with you one special track from the Oslo Gospel Choir's 2002 album, Det skjedde i de dager (And It Came To Pass).
It is the Christmas Story from the Gospel of Luke, Chapter 2, verses 1-20, read in the Norwegian [...]

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MultePod presents: Strålande Jul

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Strålande Jul
A special two-hour, commercial-free Multe Music with songs of a radiant Christmas.
The complete show is available for download NOW on the Multe Music iTunes feed or on our archives/downloads page.
The show will be broadcast online and on air at KYMNRadio.net on Christmas Eve (Thursday, December 24) from 7-9 p.m. and again on Christmas Day [...]

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Create your own Northern Lights

One of my favorite natural phenomena — the Aurora borealis — is now easily available on the Internet. I first saw the northern lights during a visit to South Dakota in the fall a number of years ago. They were absolutely stunning!
The first Old Norse account of norðrljós is found in the Norwegian chronicle Konungs [...]

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MultePod presents: Trick Or Treats!

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Trick or treats!
Ghostly tunes and bewitching melodies for Halloween.
If you're new to listening to audio online or downloading the shows, here's how to get started.
Playlist:Related Posts:MultePod presents: October FrostMultePod presents: Ólavsøka / St. Olav's WakeMultePod presents: First Edition (rebroadcast)MultePod presents: First EditionMultePod presents: Strålande Jul

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A place where you can get the big picture

What's your place where you can get "the big picture"? Is it in a mass of people — or a herd of reindeer?

The Johan Sara Jr. Group — Sami artists — were to have released the album, Orvoš, in spring 2009. The album is dedicated to a mountain near Sara's home place in northern Norway. [...]

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2009 Norwegian Folk Music Award nominees announced

The nominees for Folkealarmprisen (Norwegian Folk Music Awards) have just been announced.
Multe Music has featured tracks from a number of these recordings over the past few months on the show. In fact, we were also able to get interviews with some of these artists that we will feature on future shows. And, yes, we have [...]

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The Only Image Of My Father

Journeyman.TV has made a number of excellent documentaries available. "The Only Image of My Father" is a compelling, personal journey of a woman into her Så¡mi roots.
Monika has never met her father. She knows only that his face was once on a Swedish stamp and that he was a Sami reindeer man, an indigenous Scandinavian. [...]

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Herdswoman

In 2008, Journeyman.tv released a 58-minute documentary on the lives of Så¡mi women involved in hearding reindeer.
We encounter three Sami women of different generations and their lives with the reindeer herds. Their thoughts, dreams and memories show their view of lifes essential values. When a court case questions their ancient rights to reindeer pasture [...]

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Rimpparemmi: Finnish folk dance

Rimpparemmi is a Finnish / Så¡mi folk dance and music ensemble from Lapland province that has a unique claim — "The Official Folk Ensemble of Santa Claus". In addition, they claim the title of the northernmost folk dance theatre in the world.
I'm not going to dwell on the competing claims to Santa Claus of the [...]

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Mari Boine: Elle

Here's a beautifully haunting and thought-provoking video from Mari Boine. It's an original song from the movie "Kautokeino-opprøret (The Kautokeino Rebellion)", a tale about the Norwegian Så¡mi set in 1852.
The director of the film, Nils Gaup, was also the director of "Veiviseren (The Pathfinder)", nominated in 1987 for an Academy Award as Best Foreign [...]

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Mari Boine's journey into Sami music

For many years, the indigenous people of the Nordic nations — the Så¡mi — were mistreated and deprived of rights as they traversed Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. The Så¡mi are among the largest indigenous ethnic groups in Europe and there are now a number of Så¡mi in North America with ties to their culture.
In [...]

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The Blacksheeps win MGP Nordic 2008

A young Norwegian band, The Blacksheeps, has won the Melodi Grand Prix Nordic 2008. The band members are currently 14-15 years old and advanced to MGP Nordic after winning the Norwegian preliminary round, Melodi Grand Prix Junior.
The band is from Nesseby (known in Northern Sami as Unjarga) in Finnmark province in northern Norway. Nesseby's [...]

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Rappin' with the reindeer…

Duolva Duottar is a Sami rap group from Finnmark, Norway.
Yes, a Sami rap group. Three guys who thought about rapping in Norwegian, but then decided that since they are Sami, and Sami is their first language and they are proud of their heritage and culture — Sami rap!
The group members come from the towns of [...]

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Angelic joiking

Angelit, a group formerly known as Angelin Tytöt (The Girls of Angeli), come from the village of Angeli in the municipality of Inari, one of the few purely Sámi villages in northern Finland. Their music is the joik.
One source explains joiking this way:

The yoik is the Sámi way of talking and purifying oneself. Everyone does [...]

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