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Posted by Marionville
A tribute to the Everly Brothers live at a summer festival at Kristiansand in Norway in 1991. Morten Harket & Bjorn Eidsvag sing a medley of best known Everly Brothers hits…
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2 weeks ago2w

Posted by Marionville
It’s time for me to say goodnight with this song from Morten Harket - Heaven’s Not For Saints…singing live as host when Norway hosted The Eurovision Song Contest from Oslo in 1996. He started the whole show off with this, his own song…not...
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World Music
4 weeks ago4w

Posted by Marionville
In Norway a few a years ago they had a very good TV show called Hver Gang Vi Motes - (Every Time We Meet) - where a group of well known musicians and singers meet over a meal and each one selects a song made famous by one of the others to perform ...
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World Music
1 month ago1m

Posted by Marionville
Because today is my birthday I’m indulging myself and posting music I personally like…and I really do like a-ha which you already know. In 2001 they headed the bill at a benefit concert in Grimstad in the far north of Norway after the small ...
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Feb 24Feb 24

Posted by Marionville
I know I go on a lot about how Norway seems to produce the most amazing singers…like there must be something in the crystal clear mountain water there…or something else, who knows? For my bedtime post, my newest discovery…the 2024 winner of ...
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World Music
Feb 15Feb 15

Posted by Marionville
Last summer I at last fulfilled a longtime wish to visit the Norwegian fjords, several previous plans had to be scrapped for a variety of different reasons. At Geirangerfjord we visited a wooden octagonal church set at the head of the fjord on a ...
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World Music
Feb 4Feb 4

Posted by Marionville
Back to Norway again …today we’re also going back in time to 1989 and the title track from an album from Jan Bang with Morten Harket on backing vocals. The film sequences are from 1987 Icelandic film Foxtrot… Frozen Feelings…
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World Music
Feb 2Feb 2

Posted by Marionville
A live recording session at his Art studio in Asker, Norway - Magne Furuholmen….White Horses, a track from his recently released album Living With Ourselves ……
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World Music
Jan 18Jan 18

Posted by Marionville
True North…a-ha’s most recent album was released in 2023. It was filmed and recorded live with the Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra inside the Arctic circle in Bodo in the far north of Norway, and the 45 minute accompanying video filmed by ...
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World Music
Jan 16Jan 16

Posted by Marionville
Karl Nielsen is Denmark’s most famous composer, born in 1865 he’s regarded as Danish National Composer in much the same way as Greig is to Norway and Sibelius to Finland. Probably Nielsen’s best known work is a short piece for flute and harp ...
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World Music
Jan 4Jan 4

Posted by Marionville
You know that musically I can’t stay away from Scandinavia, especially Norway, for very long and my thoughts are drawn there on these long dark winter days when there is virtually no daylight in the most northerly parts. I think that may be when...
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World Music
Dec 24, 2024Dec 2024

Posted by Marionville
Especially for Christmas Eve…Stay On These Roads, a-ha’s hit song and title track from their 1987 album updated and given an acoustic orchestral treatment from 2017 for their MTV Unplugged live concert. It’s an uplifting song of encouragement...
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World Music
Dec 19, 2024Dec 2024

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 3, 2024Nov 2024

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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Sep 16, 2024Sep 2024

Posted by vocaloldfart
Angular roughshark: The pig-faced shark that grunts when captured By Lydia Smith The angular roughshark has wide-set eyes, a pink snout, massive nostrils and pronounced dermal denticles, giving them a furrry, pig-like appearance. Name: Angular ...
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Gardeners
Sep 14, 2024Sep 2024

Posted by Killtheskyfairy
Mushrooms called, “dead man’s fingers.” Very Halloweeny! What is dead man’s fingers? Dead man’s fingers are mushroom-like fungal growths that can be found at the base of dead or dying trees and shrubs, as well as at the base of wood ...
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