Nordic on Tap - the podcast
2019-12
Episodes
Monday Dec 30, 2019
Preschools and Bunads on Tap: Schooling in Norway & Getting a Folk costume
Monday Dec 30, 2019
Monday Dec 30, 2019
Join us as we travel to Oslo, Norway to talk to a barnehage (literally: kindergarden) teacher named Torhild to learn how Norwegian kids have it differently and the same as us in the USA. We also examine Norwegian folk costumes, or bunads...and what it takes to get one. We meet Hanne at Heimen Husfliden in Oslo as she tells us about her job selling bunads.
We finish the show with some foot-stomping fiddle and guitar tunes by Ruthie Dornfeld and Alfred Morten Høirup. Check out Darryl Jackson's music too at darryljacksonmusic.com.
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Join us as we travel to Oslo, Norway to talk to a barnehage (literally: kindergarden) teacher named Torhild to learn how Norwegian kids have it differently and the same as us in the USA. We also examine Norwegian folk costumes, or bunads...and what it takes to get one. We meet Hanne at Heimen Husfliden in Oslo as she tells us about her job selling bunads.
We finish the show with some foot-stomping fiddle and guitar tunes by Ruthie Dornfeld and Alfred Morten Høirup. Check out Darryl Jackson's music too at darryljacksonmusic.com.
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Links
Children have a right to attend a barnehage (kindergarden) in Norway from 1-5 years old. But as Torhild mentioned in the podcast, there's not enough capacity to assure that right can be exercised. Here's a look at that situation in kindergardens in Tromsø, Norway.
Heimen Husfliden of Oslo, where Hanna Westlie works, is unusual in that it sells many bunads from around Norway. Generally, it is the prerogative of Husfliden shops within the specific counties (fylke) of Norway to sell their local folk costumes. What is considered a county's specific bunad has undergone some adjustment with the redistricting in 2020. Below are photos of young women in bunads from different localities, some of which changed in the redistricting map.
Monday Dec 23, 2019
Morten Alfred Høirup on Tap: Our Interview
Monday Dec 23, 2019
Monday Dec 23, 2019
Join us for an interview of Danish composer, musician, and journalist, Morten Alfred Høirup. We find out what the folk music scene is like in Denmark and how state-sponsored radio funding is somewhat dependent on the political views of the current government. Morten also describes his work as a composer for film, especially on esoteric topics like animals (he's composed for Animal Planet, for example). What kind of music does he write to accompany a squirming snake or a jumping frog? Listen and find out!
We finish with a live recording of the guitar-duo, Høirup and Dornfeld, playing a delightful medley of Ingela's Vals (by Morten Alfred) and Meget Gammel Vals fra Vendsyssel (traditional).
Links
Morten Alfred Høirup's website proves that he's a very busy and multitalented fellow!
Selections from Morten's albums can be heard on his Bandcamp site.
He currently has played together with Mia Guldhammer, Ruthie Dornfeld (as in this podcast), in the trio Jensen, Bugge, and Høirup, with his father Fin Alfred Larson, and the American Cafe Orchestra.
Videos of Morten's many collaborations are here.
Morton is a regular contributor to Radio Folk Denmark, such as in this recording on the 2020 Danish folk music scene (in English).
Morton hosts Radio Denmark's Folk Live 30-minute podcast series (in English) showcases Danish and Nordic roots, folk, and traditional music bands performing at festivals and venues, like for example the famous Danish Tønder Festival. There's 20 great podcasts here and counting.
Morten produces his own podcast called Katten i Saekken about the Danish folk scene too (in Danish). As I understand it, "katten i sækken" (or cat in the bag) is an expression similar to "a pig in a poke", or something that is of dubious quality, but also possibly something quite good. A clever way to express the constantly emerging miljø of music.
Morten's 2022 book of sheet music called Ingela’s Waltz - 25 New Danish Folk Melodies contains, as the title says, 25 self-composed melodies. You can order this from Edition Svitzer and have it shipped to you for about USD $28/150DKK/€20.00 (as of July 2022), as I did. The title song, which I adore, is the same one played in this podcast episode. You can also audition the melody on the Edition Svitzer site ... just click on the play button (forward arrow) in the bar as seen in the picture below. The sheet music comes with the melody in standard notation and guitar/accordion/concertina/piano chords.
Click on the right-arrow (play) button to hear Ingela's Waltz on the Edition Svitzer site.