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Pizza-kast

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Welcome to Multe Music! If you're new to listening to audio online, here's how to get started, so check it out and then pick a show and listen! You can also hear the show "live" on Saturdays at 2 p.m. CT and Mondays at 7 p.m. CT on air or online at KYMNRadio.net.And in [...]

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Norway wins Eurovision — with a folk twist!

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They did it! It's truly a "Fairytale"! Even TIME Magazine is reporting the news.
Alexander Rybak and the guys from FRIKAR, representing Norway, won the famed Eurovision contest — with no contest! — and on the eve of Norway's biggest national holiday, the 17th of May (Constitution Day / Syttende Mai).
In fact, the entry was record breaking [...]

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Eurovision goes (un)traditional Norwegian

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Eurovision 2009 will begin soon — and despite reading and re-reading the Wikipedia entry on it, I still can't even begin to tell you how this song contest works!
Nevertheless, it is one of the longest running TV program in the world and millions of people watch it and vote for their favorite song.
There are two [...]

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Frikar: Work in progress

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Norway's tradition-rich dance company, FRIKAR, continues to push the envelope by combining old and new forms of traditional Norwegian dance.
This is video of a work in progress that will debut at a world music festival next summer. The full performance will have its premiere in Gudbrandsdal on 5 August 2009.
Danced by Ane Gjøvåg and [...]

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Halling dance in Age of Conan video game

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In October, I wrote about how the Norwegian dance, halling (also known as laus) had been filmed in motion-capture for inclusion in the Age of Conan game. Hallgrim Hansegård, a Class A (Master) laus dancer in Norway, was the dancer filmed for the sequence.
I've now located a video that shows the dance in its entirety [...]

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Norwegian halling dance heads to Eurovision 2009!

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Alexander Rybak, a rising pop star / musician, has won the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix — the song competition that chooses Norway's representative to the annual Eurovision contest — with his original composition, Fairytale.
I had already reported on Rybak/Frikar's semi-final win in a previous post.
The finals were held at the Oslo Spektrum on Saturday, February [...]

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Laus — on the way to Eurovision 2009?

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Countries all over Europe are currenty involved in their national competitions that will choose the performers that will represent them at the Eurovision 2009 contest.
Last week,Norway's competition — Melodi Gran Prix — held its semi-finals. A new pop star, Alexander Rybak, won with his tune "Fairytale".
He performed the tune backed by members of the FRIKAR [...]

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Halling / Laus to join the gaming world

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Norway's famous "show-off" traditional dance for men — the halling — is going to move into the gaming world.
Class A Halling dancer and leader of the Frikar dance group, Hallgrim Hansegård, has been filming motion capture for the upcoming release of a Cimmerian dance for Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures.

The video — [...]

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