Multe Entertains And Teaches at Valdres Samband
Jun 30th, 2008 by admin
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Multe plays for Valdres Samband
On Saturday, 28 June 2008, Multe performed at the annual meeting of the Valdres Samband at the Holiday Inn in Austin, Minnesota.
The Valdres Samband is an organization of emigrant descendants from the Valdres valley of Norway and those interested in its history and culture. Valdres is approximately 100 miles northwest of Oslo. The Valdres Samband is the oldest bygdelag in America having been organized in 1899. Their web site, by the way, offers resources for those who are interested in their Valdres heritage.
From 2-4 p.m., Multe's own Ruth Marie Sylte led a class on traditional Norwegian music and dance for attendees and had them waltzing and dancing the reinlander in minutes! She also spent some time explaining what makes traditional music and dance from Valdres so unique and different than other areas of Norway. Ruth Marie has visited Valdres three times and she learned the dance in Valdres from Valdres, Valdresspringar, from tradition bearers in the region.
That evening, Multe provided the program for the Valdres Samband banquet. Our setlist included plenty of waltzes and reinlanders so that our new dancers from the afternoon could get in plenty of practice. Multe also performed some listening tunes.
After the banquet, we headed back to our hotel room for the night — where the party went on for a few more hours.
Earlier on Thursday, the Samband attendees went on a tour to Bear Creek Lutheran Church where they had a concert of Norwegian Hardanger fiddle music by Andrea Een, who sometimes joins Multe for our performances.
We want to thank the Valdres Samband stene committee (Earl Evanstad, Aaron Hanson, Tricia Lerohl, and Diane Lerohl) for inviting us. We had a GREAT time!
