Category: Events

• Finnish American Folk Arts Series: Fin-A-Billy: American Roots Music and Rebellion in Finland

  Posted on Mar 23rd

  Nathan Gibson, Audio-Visual Preservation Archivist, gives free virtual presentation on Zoom. Saturday, March 26, 2022. 11:00 am – 12:30pm CDT

• Concert: Sara Pajunen Performs Finnish and Finnish American Fiddle Tunes

  Posted on May 13th

  Free virtual concert on Zoom! Friday, May 14, 2021. 2:00 – 3:30pm CDT

• Concert: Maja Heurling and Ola Sandström Perform Irrbloss

  Posted on May 3rd

  Free virtual concert on Zoom! Friday, May 7, 2021. 2:00 – 3:30pm CDT

• Finnish American Music Series: Lyz Jaakola and Finnishinaabe Fusions

  Posted on Apr 20th

  UW-Madison Nordic Folklife project’s Finnish American Music Series continues April 24, 2021

• Mayrent Institute Sound Salon with Eléonore Biezunski

  Posted on Feb 21st

  Mayrent Institute for Yiddish Culture presents musician and sound archivist Eléonore Biezunski, February 28, 2021

• Finnish American Music Series: Ralph and Jaana Tuttila, with Tom DuBois and Marcus Cederström

  Posted on Feb 21st

  UW-Madison Nordic Folklife project’s Finnish American Music Series kicks off February 27, 2021

• Show of Hands: Art in Education

  Posted on May 2nd

  Mills Music Library co-sponsors symposium on Nordic traditional arts, May 2–4, 2019, at Monona Terrace Convention Center. Free and open to the public!

• Sound Salon: Alicia Svigals and Uli Geissendoerfer: Beregovski Suite

  Posted on Mar 21st

  Join composer/violinist Alicia Svigals and jazz pianist Uli Geissendoerfer for an evening of Ukrainian Jewish folk music with a contemporary spin, Thursday, April 4, 2019, 7pm, Morphy Hall, Mead Witter School of Music.

• Sound Salon: Alpine Dreaming CD Release Party

  Posted on Oct 31st

  Celebrate the release of the 2-CD set Alpine Dreaming: The Helvetia Records Story, 1920-1924. Saturday, November 17, 2018. Wayside Dining Room, University Club, 803 State St. 7:00pm. Free and Open to the Public.

• Sound Salon: Yiddish Empire

  Posted on Oct 23rd

  Debra Caplan speaks about her book Yiddish Empire: The Vilna Troupe, Jewish Theater, and the Art of Itinerancy, Monday, October 29, 2018, 5:30-7:00pm, Memorial Library, Room 126.

• Die Tanzgeiger: Eat! Dance!

  Posted on Aug 31st

  Austrian ensemble Die Tanzgeiger performs Monday, September 24, 2018. Wayside Dining Room, University Club, 803 State St. 5:00pm Reception (with food) 6:00pm Concert. Free and Open to the Public.

• 2018 World Records Symposium

  Posted on Mar 23rd

  Free and Open to the Public! April 12-14, 2018. Two days of panel presentations, two nights of Scandinavian Folk Music concerts, and a community dance at Folklore Village.