Tuva grew up in Oslo, an environment where traditional music was not so strongly rooted. Whether it was the music that found her or she found it is hard to say. This is how it turned out! Today she works as both a performing folk musician and dancer. Tuva creates magic in his presence on stage and in his communication...

Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen has worked professionally as a musician, producer and composer for over 15 years with an international reach. He is associated with the bands I Was A King, Rural Tapes, Heroes & Zeros and The No Ones, the latter a collaboration with Peter Buck and Scott McCaughey from REM He has extensive experience working with children…

Johanne Flottorp and Åsmund Solberg first knew each other as bitter enemies through their affiliation with rival football teams in Aust-Agder. But in 2007 the two ended up as classmates at the county's only music gymnasium and quickly found that they could bury the hatchet through their shared interest in folk music from the region. Since then, they have traveled…

The liveliest music by Bergen Mandolinband comes to play cheerful songs such as "In hell's flames", "Finished with Hans" and "Around and around the bar for us" The band of author Gaute M. Sortland and fiddle player Olav Christer Rossebø mixes music as Rossebø has found on his travels and given Sortland the task of making new ones…

Jakop Janssønn is a drummer, percussionist and composer from Tromsø. He is one of the most in-demand musicians in Norway, and contributes to a number of different bands on both the Norwegian and Sami music scene. He has recently released an album with his own band Bricoleur, and in 2019 he received the Spellemann Prize in folk music / traditional music for the album Mohjtestasse…

Katrine Schiøtt is from Vestnes in Møre og Romsdal, and lives in Oslo. She has a classical education at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, where she studied with Aage Kvalbein and Geir Tore Larsen. In addition to classical music, she also has extensive experience in improvised music, contemporary music, jazz, pop, indie, and more. Together with among others…

Shanties are work songs that were used at sea, and in the Storm Weather Shanty Choir's interpretation, the shanties are performed in rock'n roll garb where the audience joins in and sings at the top of their lungs - in other words, a rock sing-along! With equally strong energy, they take the audience completely down when they perform beautiful and melancholic sailor's songs about longing and the past...

Despite the pandemic and concert break in 2020, Stålstrengene has used its time well. The band delivered an entire commissioned work for the Children's Festival at Senja consisting of 10 brand new, self-written songs made for children, people who have children and people who have been children. This work was never performed as planned in 2020 for reasons we all…

Sigrid Moldestad released her sixth solo album on 19 February "Tonen i meg" In this album she takes us into a musical landscape with darker undercurrents than before. Hardingfela is still strongly present on several songs, but this album plays in several genres. Sigrid Moldestad is a Norwegian folk musician, singer, songwriter, actor and lyricist. She was…