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December 2024

Tuesday 12/3

6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Hambo in the Garden tour: concert and dance

Kansas City Scandinavian dancers host a concert and dance party from 6:30-8:00.
$10 donation.

Loretta is America’s best-known player of Norway’s beautiful and exotic-sounding Hardanger fiddle. She studied with many of Norway’s greatest fiddlers, and is well known in Norway and the U.S. In 2011 she won she won the D (senior) class at Norway’s national fiddle contest, and she has played for top dancers in dance contests.

We have enjoyed playing together for 30 years and 5 previous album collaborations!

Thursday 12/5

7:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Hambo in the Garden tour: concert

$20 at the door

Loretta is America’s best-known player of Norway’s beautiful and exotic-sounding Hardanger fiddle. She studied with many of Norway’s greatest fiddlers, and is well known in Norway and the U.S. In 2011 she won the D (senior) class at Norway’s national fiddle contest, and she has played for top dancers in dance contests.

We have enjoyed playing together for 30 years and 5 previous album collaborations!

Saturday 12/7

5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Hambo in the Garden tour: concert & dance

Suggested donation $20-30; children free.

Loretta is America’s best-known player of Norway’s beautiful and exotic-sounding Hardanger fiddle. She studied with many of Norway’s greatest fiddlers, and is well known in Norway and the U.S. In 2011 she won the D (senior) class at Norway’s national fiddle contest, and she has played for top dancers in dance contests.

We have enjoyed playing together for 30 years and 5 previous album collaborations!

Monday 12/9

7:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Hambo in the Garden tour: house concert

For details email Howard Carlberg:

Loretta is America’s best-known player of Norway’s beautiful and exotic-sounding Hardanger fiddle. She studied with many of Norway’s greatest fiddlers, and is well known in Norway and the U.S. In 2011 she won the D (senior) class at Norway’s national fiddle contest, and she has played for top dancers in dance contests.

We have enjoyed playing together for 30 years and 5 previous album collaborations!

Tuesday 12/10

7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Hambo in the Garden tour: Knoxville

Jubilee Community Arts and Tuesday evening Trollkretsen Scandinavian Dancers present:

Thirteen Strings from Scandinavia (Loretta Kelley and me)

$10 suggested

Loretta is America’s best-known player of Norway’s beautiful and exotic-sounding Hardanger fiddle. She studied with many of Norway’s greatest fiddlers, and is well known in Norway and the U.S. In 2011 she won the D (senior) class at Norway’s national fiddle contest, and she has played for top dancers in dance contests.

We have enjoyed playing together for 30 years and 5 previous album collaborations!

Thursday 12/12

7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
House Concert: Loretta and Andrea with Andrea Larson
Doors open at 7pm, concert at 7:30. $20 suggested donation.

Monday 12/16

7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Hambo in the Garden tour: Princeton

Doors open at 7:00pm; $15.

7:30 – 10:00pm. one-hour concert followed by dancing. You are invited to
stay to dance or listen.

Loretta is America’s best-known player of Norway’s beautiful and exotic-sounding Hardanger fiddle. She studied with many of Norway’s greatest fiddlers, and is well known in Norway and the U.S. In 2011 she won the D (senior) class at Norway’s national fiddle contest, and she has played for top dancers in dance contests.

We have enjoyed playing together for 30 years and 5 previous album collaborations!

Thursday 12/19

7:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Concert with Nordensong

Institute of Musical Traditions presents Nordensong (with Loretta and Andrea opening).
Tickets : $20 advance (+$2 box office fee) / $25 door | children / students $15/20. 
http://www.imtfolk.org

Drawing on the history of Scandinavian, Celtic, and American folk music, Nordensong’s rich musical world breathes new life into these ancient traditions. Composer/guitarist Karl Lundeberg has written two albums worth of music featuring his own 12-string guitar, as well as GRAMMY-nominated Loretta Kelley on Norwegian Hardanger fiddle and Laura Hummel on Swedish nyckelharpa, resulting in Nordensong’s bold, exciting sound that is a completely new re-imagination of musical eras and genres. Andrea Hoag and Anders join as special guests.

Loretta Kelley and Andrea Hoag celebrate their new CD Hambo in the Garden.

Saturday 12/21

3:15 pm – 3:45 pm
Scandia DC Dance Party with Loretta Kelley

Holiday dance party! Andrea will also lead the spelmannslag practice and performance.  

$10, $5 spelmannslag members

3:15 pm – 5:35 pm; Sign-in with music for dancing starting at 3:15 pm; spelmannslag practice 3:30-4:30.


You must enter through the main entrance in the front, on the street side and not the west side entrance that we used to use.

http://www.scandiadc.info

Thursday 12/26Wednesday 1/1

Christmas Country Dance School

A week-long participatory celebration of dance, music, and craft traditions from the Southern Appalachians and beyond. https://bereaccds.org

January 2025

Friday 1/31

11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Solo Swedish concert at Historic Pima Courthouse

Solo informal concert of Swedish music in the beautiful historic courtyard. Bring a lunch or find one in the courthouse café. Free!

February 2025

Saturday 2/22

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Tucson Irish Musicians Showcase

Andrea plays with Púca and the Wild Ones at the second annual Tucson Irish Musicians Showcase Tickets are on sale now at In Concert: $15 in advance ($17.50 online) $20 at door, no reserved seating. A wonderful evening of Irish music with 7 groups and 2 soloists including: David Shaul, Jeffrey Bussey, Dunnog, The Shanties, Púca and the Wild Ones, Strike Your Fancy, The Out of Kilters, The Wild Swans, and The Wholigans!

pandemic-era house concert, through the porch window
pandemic-era house concert, through the porch window
workshop and concert in 2020
workshop and concert in 2020

Past gigs

November 2024

Saturday 11/30

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Scandinavian Music Workshop with Loretta Kelley

Specialty Workshop!

Scandinavian Fiddle Tunes

with Grammy nominees Andrea Hoag and Loretta Kelley

Saturday, November 30, 2:00-3:30pm. $30.

Register now.

Meet the rich and surprising tradition of Swedish and Norwegian music! Sometimes ethereal, sometimes infectiously danceable, this tradition goes back hundreds of years. We’ll look at older forms of music such as the 3/4-time polska and långdans, as well as 19th-century forms like schottische, polka, and waltz. The workshop is focused on fiddlers, though other melody instruments are welcome, and you’ll get a chance to hear the multi-stringed Hardanger fiddle. You’ll come away with some delectable tunes and new ideas for how to make dancers and listeners happy.

http://www.queenbeemusicassociation.org/

Monday 11/25

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Hambo in the Garden tour: house concert

Loretta Kelley and I start our album release tour with a house concert in the Catalina Foothills. $25 suggested. To reserve a seat, email

Loretta is America’s best-known player of Norway’s beautiful and exotic-sounding Hardanger fiddle. She studied with many of Norway’s greatest fiddlers, and is well known in Norway and the U.S. In 2011 she won the D (senior) class at Norway’s national fiddle contest, and she has played for top dancers in dance contests.

We have enjoyed playing together for 30 years and 5 previous album collaborations!, and she has played for top dancers in dance contests.

We have enjoyed playing together for 30 years and 5 previous album collaborations!

Friday 11/15

11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Solo Swedish concert at Historic Pima Courthouse

Solo informal concert of Swedish music in the beautiful historic courtyard. Bring a lunch or find one in the courthouse café. Free!

Sunday 11/3

12:00 pm – 12:30 pm
Tucson Celtic Festival & Scottish Highland Games

Pùca and the WIld Ones (Andrea with Claire Zucker, Dave Firestine, and Keith Reins) perform Celtic songs and tunes, from heartfelt to hilarious.

Sets at 12:00 and 3:30, and we host a jam session at 2:30!

http://tucsoncelticfestival.org

Saturday 11/2

9:00 am – 9:30 am
Tucson Celtic Festival & Scottish Highland Games

Pùca and the WIld Ones (Andrea with Claire Zucker, Dave Firestine, and Keith Reins) perform Celtic songs and tunes, from heartfelt to hilarious.

http://tucsoncelticfestival.org

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