Vegar Vårdal

Vegar Vårdal plays Harding fiddle and fiddle, and is an energetic performer with few inhibitions. He is also a dancer and educator. Vegar has been part of the festival since its inception as a musician, dancer, course holder, festival musician and director of the North Sea Concert. That is why we appointed him as honorary member no. 2 during our 20th anniversary.

He has his education from the folk music department at Telemark University College, and the Norwegian Academy of Music. He also has an intermediate subject in folk dance from NTNU. When he studied at the Academy of Music, he had mainly Professor Sven Nyhus as an instrumental teacher, and immersed himself in the valdest tradition on the harding fiddle.

Now he lives in Gudbrandsdalen. He gives lectures and teaches as a part-time teacher at most folk music educations in Norway. For part of his working time, he is a folk music teacher at Vinstra upper secondary school, which has a national line in folk music. Vårdal has established a separate study in Norwegian folk dance, which has existed since 2003.