Vegar Vårdal performs on the regular fiddle and the hardingfele (hardanger fiddle), the Norwegian fiddle with sympathetic strings. He performs both solo and with groups,…
Artist Profiles: Vegar Vårdal
Tag: Norway
Artist Profiles: Vamp
Vamp was formed in 1990 by Øyvind Staveland, Calle Øyvind Apeland, Paul Hansen, Bjørn Berge, Odin Staveland and Tore Jamne. It is one of Norway’s…
Artist Profiles: Valkyrien Allstars
Norwegian band Valkyrien Allstars plays new music based on traditional Norwegian tunes. The band’s vibrant sound is characterized by the soulful and powerful vocals of…
Artist Profiles: Vajas
Norwegian band Vajas (Echo) represented a synergy of arctic voices and sound: (i) the traditional Sami yoiks of Ánde Somby emanating from the distant tundra;…
Artist Profiles: Utla
Utla is a trio whose music based on the Hardanger fiddle tradition, primarily that of western Norway. The group focuses on creating music on its…
Artist Profiles: Unni Løvlid
Unni Løvlid is one of Norway’s leading folk music vocalists, and was the first musician to be nominated ‘Performer of the Year’ at the Folkelarm…
Artist Profiles: Unni Boksasp
Unni Boksasp is a traditional folk singer from Nordmøre in the northwest coast of Norway. She now lives in Telemark, in the southern part of…
Artist Profiles: Trygve Seim
Inspired early in his creative life by Jan Garbarek and by Edward Vesala, Trygve Seim has worked in many modern jazz contexts, and continues to…
Artist Profiles: Transjoik
Transjoik is a Sami group out of Norway. Where tradition and modernity have long been the two sole absolutes of the enigmatic path of the…
Artist Profiles: Tone Hulbækmo
Award-winning Norwegian artist Tone Hulbækmo was born in 1957 in Tolga in Østerdalen. She’s a vocalist with broad repertoire, ranging European medieval and renaissance music…