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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 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!

Specialty Workshop!

Scandinavian Fiddle Tunes

with Grammy nominees Andrea Hoag and Loretta Kelley

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

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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/

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 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!

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 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!

Please check back for details.

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.

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