“Jeg elsker musikken din,” I tell Norwegian folk singer Juni Habel near the start of our virtual meeting, she in her country house an hour outside Oslo, and me in my country house outside New York ...

This evocation of an aspect of country life is part of a radical reinterpretation of Edvard Grieg’s 19 Norske Folkeviser (19 Norwegian Folk Songs), composed in 1896. The first piece in the cycle is ...

Gåte is a Norwegian progressive folk band that formed back in 1999, went on hiatus in the mid 2000s, and returned with a new album, Svevn, in 2018. They followed it this year with a new EP, Til Nord ...

The medieval Gol Church at Oslo's Norsk Folkemuseum: a symbol of Norway's identity as resonant as the country's music But Slagr, despite the presence of a rootsy Hardanger fiddle in their ranks, are ...

SETESDAL, A WINDING valley to the north of Kristiansand in southern Norway, was once a place of traditions little changed since medieval times. Chief among these were song and dance marked by ...

For sisters, Jane Norman and Ann E. Black, don't really look alike. Ann, who is the eldest at 67 and is a self-professed tomboy, has short, dark hair and moves quickly about a room. When she was a ...

Modesty, she tells me, is what makes her distinctly Norwegian. Naming her cat Lisa, not so much. (“Lisa is not but a common name actually, but it is in The Simpsons,” she says.) And then, of course, ...