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Amy M. Shaw, MLIS, MM
Presentation
Vitality, Life, Soul: Building Up a Town with a Fiddle
Norwegian-American Historical Association (2016)
  • Amy M Shaw
Abstract
This paper was an overview of the life and work of Norwegian-American fiddler Ole Hendricks (1851–1935). This hour-long presentation included performances from his 100-page tunebook manuscript, and explored what the tunebook reveals about traditional music and dance in a small town in the Red River Valley during the 1890s. Assisting musicians included Beth Rotto and Sara Pajunen on fiddles and Chris Bashor on guitar.
Keywords
  • Ole Hendricks,
  • fiddle,
  • traditional music,
  • dance,
  • waltz,
  • reinlender,
  • schottische,
  • polka,
  • gammaldans,
  • Telemark,
  • storgårdsmusikk,
  • Elbow Lake,
  • Minnesota
Disciplines
Publication Date
October 29, 2016
Location
Northfield, Minnesota
Citation Information
Amy M Shaw. "Vitality, Life, Soul: Building Up a Town with a Fiddle" Norwegian-American Historical Association (2016)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/amy_shaw/17/