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Bunny hop? or jenka?

January 18, 2010

A while ago I came across this video of Swedish students doing a line dance version of the "jenka" ("jenkka" in Finnish) and noticed how similar the dance is to the American novelty dance, the bunny hop. So I started looking around for more information. The bunny hop Wikepedia entry links to an article in [...]

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MultePod presents: Destination: Gudbrandsdal, Part 1

November 7, 2009

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Destination: Gudbrandsdal, Part 1 Highlighting the music of Norway's largest valley, Gudbrandsdal. If you're new to listening to audio online or downloading the shows, here's how to get started. This Week's Playlist: // Related Posts:MultePod presents: What's New?MultePod presents: Solid as a Rock – Presenting KVARTSMultePod presents: First Edition (rebroadcast)MultePod presents: First EditionMultePod presents: Destination: [...]

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The most requested Nordic tune in Minnesota…

July 8, 2009

… nursing homes (alderheimer)? Johan på snippen. Really. A few years ago, a friend of mine went to a concert given by three prominent accordionists from this region. They were playing both full-size and diatonic accordions and lots of music from all over Europe. During the program, they mentioned that the Swedish tune "Johan på [...]

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If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck…

May 11, 2009

Here's a wonderful new schottis from the Original Swedish Arvika Blues Breakers in Värmland, Sweden. I can appreciate a band that has instruments such as a washboard, kazoo and a "screamer". Here they are doing a new schottis written by Tuta that they call the Blues-schottis, but that I think should be called something more [...]

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Skrå: , rejlender

March 16, 2009

Skrå is a new folk band from the Åland Islands between Finland and Sweden. Here's how they describe themselves on their MySpace page: Skrå. Four young men from the Åland islands. New-written folk music. Two violins knowing each other since childhood. A guitar with gypsy and jazz in the neck. Percussion without limits… Skrå is [...]

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Jenka or polkka? You decide…

March 9, 2009

You can run into some interesting things on YouTube… There's a YouTube user from Russia, orvokki7, who has posted a number of videos of performances by the Karelian/Russian dance company, Ensemble Kantele Of course, the descriptions for the videos are written in Russian with Cyrillic characters, so I'm at a loss. But the interesting thing [...]

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