{"id":4579,"date":"2022-03-28T06:02:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T06:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parkergambino.com\/?p=4579"},"modified":"2022-06-24T06:12:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T06:12:36","slug":"norwegian-heritage-day-march-26-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/?p=4579","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian Heritage Day – March 26, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Norwegian Heritage Day – March 26, 2022\u00a0 –\u00a0 Leif Erikson Hall, Seattle<\/p>\n

Returned to event-sketching and posting with a healthy overdose – four acts, four hours on my feet!\u00a0 At least I got to scarf some P\u00f8lse with lefse<\/em> (Norwegian hotdog bound up in a flexible potato-based tortilla-like wrap) before it was all gone, demand rapidly outstripping supply.\u00a0 Sketching got complicated by the dancing going on: dancers were part of the entertainment, and most of the tunes were clearly meant for it; so I had to stay out of the way of the dancers, who at times were, well, in my way.\u00a0 And some musicians (not the seated ones) also got into the act, moving to new positions and conformations as the music struck.\u00a0 This all made a “dancer” out of me as I shifted position back and forth for viewing advantage, ever-mindful of keeping my distance from just about everybody.<\/p>\n

Solo fiddler Boyd was most elusive, and it shows.\u00a0 \u00a0Six Feet Back Band seemed to have the most complexly composed arrangements, lots of reading off of music stands, structured harmonies.\u00a0 S\u00f8lje Sisters violated the “Shave and a Haircut” norm by using it more than once for a song-ending.\u00a0 \u00a0Skandia Kapell offered more tunes in minor keys, plus they had a bunch of unison singing, whereas the other groups were strictly instrumental.\u00a0 When asked about the minor-key emphasis, Johansson attributed it to being Finnish (although Viking nonetheless).\u00a0 I guess having a border with Russia can do that.<\/p>\n

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Bill Boyd<\/p><\/div>\n

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Six Feet Back Band<\/p>\n

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Gregory Gdovicak<\/p><\/div>\n

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Lyn Jackson<\/p><\/div>\n

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Donna Luce<\/p><\/div>\n

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Lydia Louie<\/p><\/div>\n

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Anita Paulsen<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sharon Farmer<\/p><\/div>\n

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Nancy Hiraoka<\/p><\/div>\n

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Joanna Elizondo<\/p><\/div>\n

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Kristen Forster<\/p><\/div>\n

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Kris Johansson<\/p><\/div>\n

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James R Skrindi<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bjarne Jacobsen<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Norwegian Heritage Day – March 26, 2022\u00a0 –\u00a0 Leif Erikson Hall, Seattle Returned to event-sketching and posting with a healthy overdose – four acts, four hours on my feet!\u00a0 At least I got to scarf some P\u00f8lse with lefse (Norwegian … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4579"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4696,"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions\/4696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parkergambino.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}