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MultePod presents: Farm Report (rebroadcast)

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Farm Report
This week's show is a rebroadcast of the May 30, 2009 program, "Farm Report". Ruth Marie shares a variety of music this weeks that celebrates farming and agriculture with music from traditional to jazz, swing, country and rock.Related Posts:MultePod presents: Farm ReportMultePod presents: First Edition (rebroadcast)MultePod presents: First EditionMultePod presents: Røta – The Hellbillies…MultePod [...]

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MultePod presents: Sunde-afternoon

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Sunde-afternoon
Enjoy the versatility of one of Norway's guitar masters, Øystein Sunde!
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Playlist:Related Posts:MultePod presents: Farm Report (rebroadcast)MultePod presents: Farm ReportØystein Sunde og Halvdan Sivertsen: Ja takk, begge deler potpurriFolque: DanseviseGitarkamaratene: Gammalosten

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Nilsen, Ofsdal, Sunde: Together again after 40 years!

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Forty years ago — in 1969 — three young and enthusiastic musicians sat in the first row at Norway's national folk music competition in Geilo and heard legendary Hallingdal fiddler Odd Bakkerud play "Fanitullen".
Each young man went on to have avery successful music career with folk music playing an important role. Their names? Lillebjørn Nilsen, [...]

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MultePod presents: Farm Report

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Farm Report
Music that celebrates life on the farm.
If you're new to listening to audio online or downloading the shows, here's how to get started.
Playlist:Related Posts:MultePod presents: Farm Report (rebroadcast)MultePod presents: First Edition (rebroadcast)MultePod presents: First EditionMultePod presents: Røta – The Hellbillies…MultePod presents: What's New?

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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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Øystein Sunde: Soga om Harald Jordfreser

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Øystein Sunde is a master musician, lyricist and humorist in Norway and a musical icon. I compare him to a cross between Randy Newman and Jerry Reed.
Sometimes he includes humorous stories in his presentations. Here he tells the story of the little-known Norwegian king Harald Jordfreser. I love the humor in this.
I would love to [...]

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Chet Atkins and a Norwegian Mountain Tune

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I recently ran across an interesting version of a traditional Norwegian tune — played by no less than the guitar master, Chet Atkins. And it's a tune he learned from (and performs with in the video below) a Norwegian guitarist, Claes Neeb.
Neeb is from the area near Halden, Norway and is considered one of [...]

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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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