Geitungen, a folk music trio from Norway, will perform at 7 p.m. Monday at the Gyda Varden Sons of Norway Lodge in Grand Forks, playing tunes from its home area Rogaland.
Musicians Håvard Ims, Olav Christer Rossebø and Vidar S. B. Skrede will play both traditional and new written tunes from waltz, schottische and hopsar (the local polka) and old Norwegian coupe dances, halling and springar.
Geitungen has made two recordings, "Vaniljesaus" (2001) and "Bra Kast!" (2005), which won an award for best album of the year at the Norwegian Folk Music Awards in 2005.
Geitungen is in the front line of Norwegian folk musicians inspired by both traditional and modern music, a news release said.
Ims (from Sandnes) is a Norwegian champion on the two row accordion and a medical student in Bergen.
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Rossebø (from Haugesund), who plays fiddle, guitar and mandolin, is a student at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. He has played with the bands Bergen Mandolinband, Earlybird Stringband, Salt, Fant & Fente and Filibuster.
Skrede (from Haugesund) plays hardanger fiddle, ordinary fiddle and guitars. He is a master student of Nordic folk music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. He has played with the bands Stimenn, The Great Norwegian Guitar Quartette, AAMOS, Vidvandre, Nomas and Fant & Fente.
Admission to the performance will be $5.
"Masurka" by Geitungen
