Posted by Ultradog MN on March 02, 2014 at 16:20:27 from (174.20.239.172):
Besides Mr. Lund? Minnesota saw a huge influx of folks from all of Scandinavia from the 1880s till the 1930s or so. Lots of Swedes, Norweigians, Finlanders, a few Danes. I suppose because our cold didn't scare them off. Still a lot of Scandinavian festivals in the summer and groups of folks interested in preserving their heritage here. The Swedes are well represented. There is a place called the American Swedish Institute here in Minneapolis. Kind of a hoity toity museum now days. Was built in a huge old mansion near downtown. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden always drops by there for a visit when he's in town. Anyway, they have a Swedish fiddle music group called a Spelmanslag that's affiliated with the museum. They put on concerts here and there and a few times a year they put on free concerts. My wife has been a member of the fiddle group for at least 25 years so I went to their free concert this afternoon. There were only about 20 players today as this was a small offsite concert in a local church. The full group has about 35 or 40 fiddlers. But you get even 20 fiddle players all bending their bows at the same time (plus a guest guitarist and a couple of other instruments that sat in for a couple of tunes) and boy oh boy does that fill a room with sound. Waltzes, Mazurkas, Polkas, most of them lively, some of them haunting, all of them sure get you to tapping your toes. Them Swedes are ok in my book. Here's a couple of them playing for a promotional video. Gives you an idea of their sound.
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