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A group to share great music with others of any type from around the world, and of any language, and taste. Everyone is welcome to join! Just keep in mind that there are other music groups in which you can post well known artists and songs which are in the mainstream US/UK music.. Read more

A group to share great music with others of any type from around the world, and of any language, and taste. Everyone is welcome to join! Just keep in mind that there are other music groups in which you can post well known artists and songs which are in the mainstream US/UK music.. Read more

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Posts Tagged "Norway" By Marionville (2354) Posts by members only

World Music
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Posted by Marionville
It’s a long way from Norway to Chile…but these Norwegians have a big following there…and all over South America! Festival de Vina del Mar in Chile, started in 1960 is the oldest and largest music festival in Latin America and one of the ...
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World Music
Nov 3Nov 3

Posted by Marionville
We’re returning to Norway today with a group called KEiiNO with their unique blend of ELM with Sami traditional music… I must say I really like it. With a video filmed in Norway in a variety of locations in October & November 2020. - ...
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World Music
Aug 30Aug 30

Posted by Marionville
A new name for me from Norway to add to my already quite extensive list is Helene Boksle who sings Bifrost from the soundtrack of Norwegian motion picture The Last King…
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World Music
Aug 27Aug 27

Posted by Marionville
The Paralympic Games begin tomorrow in Paris and I’m sure they’ll have an official song performed at the opening ceremony by a French band or solo artist as is customary. In 1994 the winter Paralympic Games were held in Lillihammer in Norway ...
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World Music
Aug 26Aug 26

Posted by Marionville
We learned a wide variety of classical, folk, and traditional songs from around the world in our music classes in Primary School, not just from Scotland and around the British Isles. It was my earliest groundings for my lifelong love of all types ...
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World Music
Aug 18Aug 18

Posted by Marionville
I always find it interesting to hear how songs get written, what inspires musicians to write what they do and why. My own favourite band a-ha have two main songwriters Pal Waaktaar & Magne Furuholmen, guitarist & keyboardist respectively, and their...
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World Music
Aug 8Aug 8

Posted by Marionville
My favourite band is a-ha…why?…you ask. Well, I think they’re just simply the best live band with the best original songs and by far and away the best vocalist. To illustrate what I mean here is possibly the best live performance of just ...
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World Music
Jul 21Jul 21

Posted by Marionville
In 1994 the Norwegian band a-ha went on an extended break…they called it a hiatus, they said they were totally exhausted from almost continuous touring for nearly ten years since they first hit the International music scene with the mega hit Take ...
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World Music
Jul 11Jul 11

Posted by Marionville
My own recent visit to Norway & the Scottish Isles made me think of The Hebridean Overture which German composer Felix Mendelssohn was inspired to write after a sea voyage around the Scottish Hebrides in 1829, especially after seeing Fingal’s Cave...
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World Music
Jun 23Jun 23

Posted by Marionville
As I’m off tomorrow morning on a cruise to the Western Isles of Scotland and the Norwegian fjords…this will be the last music post here until after I return on 4th July. So as I’m heading north I thought I’d post this from my favourite band...
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World Music
Jun 9Jun 9

Posted by Marionville
I’m going to Norway soon to see the fjords and majestic scenery, it’s a country I’ve long been drawn to …and as a Scot feel a great affinity with too, as both historically and geographically Scotland has close ties with Norway. It’s also...
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World Music
Jun 5Jun 5

Posted by Marionville
When talent wins out over looks! Kurt Nilsen was nearly eliminated in the audition round of Norway’s Idol singing contest because the judges didn’t think his looks were a good enough fit to win..but his voice was so good they decided to put ...
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World Music
Jun 3Jun 3

Posted by Marionville
In 1995 a-ha had been touring constantly for ten years, performing live and writing and releasing five albums since their first iconic hit Take On Me in 1985. Magne Furuholmen their keyboard player was diagnosed with arrhythmia..a heart condition ...
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World Music
Apr 22Apr 22

Posted by Marionville
In 2022 they celebrated 50 years of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Norway with a concert at the Oslo Spektrum. Here the famous Oslo gay choir Fagottkor and guest soloist Mettleson perform Never Let Me Go with Norwegian Radio Orchestra ...
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World Music
Feb 20Feb 20

Posted by Marionville
In 1994 The Winter Olympic Games were held in Lillehammer in Norway and a-ha were selected to write and perform the official song of the Games. Here they’re filmed in the TV studio making a publicity video ahead of the Games and performing their...
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World Music
Feb 1Feb 1

Posted by Marionville
CC Cowboys are one of the best rock bands to come out of Norway …formed in Fredrikstad in 1979…and in Scandinavian solidarity naming themselves after a song by Swedish rock group Imperiet. Here they are with one of their songs released as a ...
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World Music
Jan 28Jan 28

Posted by Marionville
Back to Norway again…can’t keep me away! Today it’s the wonderful Sissel Kyrkjebo in a live duet with Espen Lind who is also a very talented Norwegian singer. Espen & Sissel - Where The Lost Ones Go…
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World Music
Dec 30, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville
Icelandic multitalented percussionist, arranger and record producer Gulli Briem spent two years on the first chapter of his musical journey of the senses, pulling in talented fellow musicians from across Northern Europe & Scandinavia. “Earth ...
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World Music
Dec 26, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville
Last night I watched this concert on YouTube on my new 43” Toshiba TV - The Nobel Peace Prize concert, Oslo 2015. I’ve watched it many times already on my IPad, but it was the first time on the larger HD screen…marvellous! The Nobel ...
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World Music
Dec 16, 2023Dec 2023

Posted by Marionville
At this time of the year we think of Santa, reindeers, snow ….and a pretty much frozen landscape. Well that image conjures up the place up near the North Pole where the Sami people live, traditionally reindeer herders, they don’t belong to ...
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World Music
Nov 14, 2023Nov 2023

Posted by Marionville
We’re in The Netherlands today with a live performance of Edvard Greig’s Peer Gynt Suite No.1… the first movement “Morning Mood” is one of my favourites in classical music. It’s being performed by by Radio Filharmonisch Orkest with ...
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World Music
Nov 13, 2023Nov 2023

Posted by Marionville
After being unable to login to the Agnostics site for over a week it’s nice to be back…for how long though is anyone’s guess. I’d better not waste time then and just post this charming song from two Scandinavian neighbours…Bjorn Eidsvag ...
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World Music
Oct 12, 2023Oct 2023

Posted by Marionville
I suppose it’s not really very surprising that classical musicians like to play their own versions of hit music from favourite bands or singers when they get the chance. In Norway a-ha are national icons and these musicians from Arctic ...
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World Music
Oct 6, 2023Oct 2023

Posted by Marionville
We’re really in the frozen north today on Svalbard a Norwegian archipelago between northern Norway and the North Pole…and the most northerly inhabited place on earth. It’s classical cellist and composer Havard Bilsbak who’s taking us there...
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World Music
Sep 15, 2023Sep 2023

Posted by Marionville
We were in Norway yesterday and today we’re nipping across the border to Sweden with this lovely song from Marie Fredriksson. Marie was one half of the very successful hit pop duo Roxette, who sadly died in 2019 aged 61 after battling cancer for a...
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