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Film, Video Conversation with Scandinavian folk band Spælimenninir

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Title

  • Conversation with Scandinavian folk band Spælimenninir

Summary

  • Spælimenninir is a lively group of six musicians that play traditional and contemporary folk music from Scandinavia. The group's home base is the Faroe Islands, but Spælimenninir is not strictly a Faroese band, neither in personnel nor music. Having played together for over 45 years, the current line-up includes one native Faroese, two Americans and three Danes. This international collaboration has resulted in a varied repertoire, which reflects each member's heritage and illustrates the links between the music traditions of the Scandinavian countries and the United States. In 2023, during their visit to Washington to play in the American Folklife Center's Homegrown Concert Series, three members, each originally from a different country, spoke with Stephen Winick of the Library of Congress.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2023-04-12.

Notes

  • -  Kristian Blak, Sharon Weiss, Ívar Bærentsen, Stephen Winick.
  • -  Recorded on 2023-04-12.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2025661168

Online Format

  • video
  • online text
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Conversation with Scandinavian folk band Spælimenninir. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-12, 2023. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2025661168/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & American Folklife Center, S. B. (2023) Conversation with Scandinavian folk band Spælimenninir. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-12. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2025661168/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Conversation with Scandinavian folk band Spælimenninir. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -04-12, 2023. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2025661168/>.