As part of the 2018 summer field school—FOLKLORE 490: Field Methods and the Public Presentation of Folklore—students and instructors from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Finlandia University, and St. Olaf College volunteered at and documented the …
Month: July 2018
2018 Sustaining Scandinavian Folk Music Symposium Recap
The 2018 World Records Symposium was hosted at Memorial Library (April 12–14) and this year’s theme was Sustaining Scandinavian Folk Music in the Upper Midwest. Organized by three campus folklorists—Marcus Cederström (Community Curator of Nordic-American …
50 Years of Folk Music at Nordic Fest
Anna Rue, Marcus Cederstrom, and Nathan Gibson from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, will discuss the history of the Folk Music Festival, held during Nordic Fest starting in 1968 in Vesterheim’s Bethania Church at 1:30p.m. on …