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Written in Folk Roots issue 161, 1996

ARNE M. SØLVBERG
Nordfjordslåttar
Grappa GRCD 4118 (1996)
 
Jon Rosenlid and Samuel Bergset were Norway’s Nordfjord region’s most famous fiddlers this century - Rosenlid moved to the USA, Bergset stayed home - and changed its tradition by introducing the hardingfele from further south. Arne Sølvberg (who made a fine album with guitarist Øyvind Lyslo in 1990), is from the same village, Fjelli, played with both, is in turn Nordfjord’s finest, and here plays their repertoire and his own tunes solo on hardingfele, fiddle and occasional wooden whistle.


© 1996 Andrew Cronshaw
 

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