Category: Sustaining Scandinavian Folk Arts in the Upper Midwest

• Concert: Musical Informance by Lyz Jaakola

  Posted on Feb 14th

  Anishinaabe Music: More than Pow-wow
  Tuesday, February 25, 2025
  4:00-5:30 p.m.
  Memorial Union Play Circle Theater, 800 Langdon St. (and via YouTube)
  Free and Open to the Public

• Lecture: Folk Music and the Nordic Newcomers

  Posted on Apr 26th

  Renee Vaughan
  Tuesday, April 30, 2024
  4:00-5:00 p.m.
  Memorial Library, Room 126
  Free and Open to the Public

• Concert: The McNordiques

  Posted on Mar 21st

  Free and Open to the Public
  Thursday, April 4, 2024
  5:00-6:30 p.m.
  Allen Centennial Garden

• Bowery Dance: Out of the barn and into the Garden

  Posted on Sep 19th

  Free and Open to the Public
  Friday, September 22, 2023
  6:30-8:30 p.m.
  Allen Centennial Garden, Madison, WI

• Lecture Recital: A Brief History of Finnish Folk Music

  Posted on Feb 14th

  A Brief History of Finnish Folk Music & Folk Music Improvisation
  Alyssa Rodriguez
  Tuesday, February 21, 2023
  5:00-6:30 p.m.
  Memorial Library, Room 126, 728 State St
  Free and Open to the Public

• Old-Time Barn Dance: Beth Hoven Rotto returns!

  Posted on Oct 7th

  Free and Open to the Public
  Saturday, October 22, 2022
  6:30-8:30 p.m.
  The Old Barn on Capitol View, Middleton, WI

• Concert: Maja Heurling, Ola Sandström, and Livet Nord Perform Irrbloss

  Posted on Oct 2nd

  Free concert, October 4, 2022, 6:00 – 7:30 pm, Tripp Commons, Memorial Union

• Old-Time Barn Dance: Musician-in-Residence Beth Hoven Rotto

  Posted on May 5th

  Free and Open to the Public
  Friday, May 13, 2022
  6:30-8:30pm
  The Old Barn on Capitol View, Middleton, WI

• Spring Dance: Musician-in-Residence Beth Hoven Rotto

  Posted on Apr 7th

  Free and Open to the Public
  Monday, April 18, 2022
  6-8:30pm
  Great Hall, Memorial Union

• 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

• Musician-in-Residence: Beth Hoven Rotto

  Posted on Feb 14th

  Fiddler from Decorah, Iowa, on campus for Spring 2022, leading a Scandinavian-American Old-Time Dance Music Ensemble

• 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