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Join us on an engaging and delightful tour of Nordic culture, through traditional music, art, history, and language.
You’ll be inspired by the stories of fascinating people who have done great things, but are otherwise just like you and me.
We’ll also stretch your imagination with Nordic folktales, reflecting on how they speak to the common humanity in all of us.
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Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
In this Winter Solstice/Christmas podcast we hear two stories and an interview about "trees" - the krumkake, the noble fir, and the lingonberry. That is, the challenge of making a functional krumkake, the odyssey of cutting our own ragged Christmas tree, and a special on-site interview with Pacific Northwest lingonberry farmer, Leslie Lindskog. We also investigate the origins of the beautiful Ave Marias of Bach/Gounod and Franz Schubert. Join us!
Saturday Oct 31, 2020
Saturday Oct 31, 2020
The centerpiece of every farm in Norway was always the storehouse, or stabbur. The food stored during summer and fall in this humble log and stave building was what got people through the long, cold winters every year. They were built so well, many are still standing 300 years later. Join us as we l hear the story from a man who built his own version in the mountains of Montana, and learned to carve the portals just like the stave churches of old. We also hear a song played by the Nordahl Grieg Spelemannslag.