My first visit to Karen’s was in 2020, right before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Seated in her living room in Madison, Wisconsin, were a collection of Hardanger fiddle players, all playing fiddles with …
Folk Music
Bowery Dance at Allen Centennial Garden
We kept checking the weather. Our weather apps. The radio. The sky itself. Everyone promised rain. Some promised a drizzle. Some promised a downpour. We couldn’t afford much more than a drizzle. We had taken …
Songs of the Finnish Migration from Laulu Aika
Hundreds of thousands of migrants came from Finland to the United States beginning in the 1870s. Some sought religious freedom, others economic opportunity. Some followed family, friends, and lovers. Others fled Russification. Still others simply …