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MultePod presents: Melodies of the Heart

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Melodies of the Heart
Tunes that explore the emotion of love.
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MultePod presents: AmerikaTur

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AmerikaTur
America in music by Nordic artists to celebrate the USA's Independence Day, July 4th.
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MultePod presents: Summer Wedding

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Summer Wedding
Music to celebrate a summertime wedding.
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MultePod presents: Syttende Mai

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Syttende Mai
Music to celebrate Norway's national day — Constitution Day — on May 17th.
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Norwegian Prime Minister offends beloved musicians

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Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and his Arbeiderpartiet (Labor Party) have caused quite a kerfuffle in the Norwegian music scene this weekend via Twitter.
It seems that Arbeiderpartiet issued an invitation to its Twitter followers that said:
Gratulerer med dagen alle sammen! Husk at du kan følge Jens og de nye gitarkameratene direkte fra Slemmestad kl 15 [...]

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"De Nye Gitarkameratene" gets a well-deserved parody

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A while back, some Norwegian young pop stars — Espen Lind, Kurt Nilsen, Askil Holm and Alejandro Fuentes — decided to call themselves were referred to in the Norwegian press as the "De Nye Gitarkameratene (New Guitar Buddies)".
Mind you, they are popular musicians.
But the problem is that there is already a real and original Gitarkameratene [...]

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Øystein Sunde og Halvdan Sivertsen: Ja takk, begge deler potpurri

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I really enjoy Øystein Sunde and Halvdan Sivertsen, musical icons in Norway. Here they are featured in a clip from their NRK TV show, "Ja takk, begge deler" ("Yes, thanks, both sides/choices/parts").
The clip is a potpurri of some of their hits and a wonderful encore. I particularly enjoy  Øystein Sunde's guitar-playing. He is an amazing [...]

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Halvdan Sivertsen: An English-language guide to Vestlandet

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Halvdan Sivertsen, another musical legend in Norway, also has a talent as a humorous storyteller. The ability to give a good "tale" (that's tall-eh, story) is a skill that is admired and respected in the Nordic countries.
This YouTube clip is from a show, "Ja takk, begge deler" ("Yes, thank you, both sides/choices"),  that he did [...]

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Gitarkamaratene: Gammalosten

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Here you have a classic YouTube offering of four of Norway's pop/rock/folk rock icons of the 1970s and 80s who are still very popular today – Halvdan Sivertsen, Øystein Sunde, Jan Eggum and Lillebjørn Nilsen (also known as Gitarkamaratene / The Guitar Buddies) – dressed in bunads and singing about gammalost –  [...]

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