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Announcing Nordic Fiddles & Feet 2007
Camp this year is June 30 to July 7. The
complete brochure with registration form
is now available.
Again this year: 10% discount for first-time campers; mini-camp
June 30 - July 3.
Whether you’re new to Scandinavian dance/music or a perennial camper, come embrace the Fiddles and Feet community that springs to life each summer!
Immerse yourself in this enchanting folk music and dance in the beautiful West Virginia hills, taught by some of the best Scandinavian musicians and dancers in the world.
Dance classes include Swedish, Norwegian, and Basics and are designed for all levels of dancers. Dance basics is intended to give beginners an introduction to Scandinavian dancing while working on skills that help all levels of dancing. We change partners often (you need not register with one). Evening parties are varied with gammaldans, mixers, bygdedans, dances taught during daily classes, and your special requests. We dance to live music at every session and party!
Music classes include multiple levels of Swedish fiddle, as well as hardingfele, and nyckelharpa. Classes are generally taught "by ear" although a syllabus will be available. To take a fiddle class you should be a competent fiddler in some tradition, but may be new to Scandinavian music. For basic hardingfele or nyckelharpa you need to have some musical background. The gammaldans band and allspel sessions are open to ALL instruments and singers.
Crafts and cultural sessions will be presented by various members of the staff throughout the week.
| DANCE | MUSIC |
| Bjørn Sverre Hol Haugen & Petra Eriksson, Stig and Helèn Eriksson, Roo Lester & Larry Harding, |
Vegar Vårdal, Hardanger fiddle Toby Weinberg, Hardingfele and Seljefløyte |
Swedish Staff
Stig and Helèn Eriksson began dancing as teens growing up in Sweden. They have been teaching for 25 years in throughout Europe and the US. Winners of the famous Hälsinge Hambo contest, these talented and friendly teachers have also received their big silver medals for polska dancing. Helen plays in the Klintetten band. Stig judges gammaldans competitions around Sweden. Stig and Helen will present dances from Östergötland, as well as a variety of their favorites from other parts of Sweden. Their clear, lively teaching style and fluent English make for a delightful experience.
Carin Funseth grew up in Göteborg, and has been involved in folk music and dance since she was a child. She has studied with many of Sweden’s foremost fiddlers and singers over the years, and attended the folk music program at the Malung folkhögskola. She’s leader of the youth spelmanslag in Göteborg, and has given dance, music, and song workshops in Sweden and Norway. She’s currently studying folk music and dance at the Manger folkehøgskule (near Bergen). She likes to emphasize the connection between the music and the dance.
Markus Svensson was born in south Dalsland. When he was only 19 he became a Swedish rikspelman on nyckelharpa. He has attended the Music academy in Stockholm. Over the last 15 years he has made many recordings and collaborated with many theatrical productions and music groups, including Trio Patrekatt, Kalabra, and the Nyckelharpa Orchestra. He now works as a freelance musician and teacher at the Hemse Royal Music academy in Gotland.
Norwegian Staff
Bjørn Sverre Hol Haugen comes from Odalen in Hedmark, in Southeastern Norway. He is a class A dancer, and has specialized in reviving dances from the Finnskog area. He’s an ethnologist and folk museum director, and he was chief editor for the three-volume encyclopedia of Norwegian folk costumes. He’s currently the leader of the folkdance troup Grenselaust (“without borders”). At NFF he will concentrate on Finnskogs pols.
Eva Karlsson has studied the surviving films of Finnskogs pols and has helped to revitalize this dance. She worked with the Norwegian folk costume project, and she designs textiles. She also plays fiddle and enrader accordion, focusing on music from the border between Norway and Sweden: Finnskog, western Dalarna, eastern Norway. She has studied folkmusic in Malung in Sweden, at the Raulandsakademiet (Telemark), and more recently at the Ole Bull-akademiet in Voss.
Petra Eriksson is a young dancer from Värmland, in southwestern Sweden. She grew up in a musical environment and became involved in folkmusic and -dance at an early age. She attended the dance instructor training course at the Eric Sahlström Institutet. She currently teaches and performs dance. She is a dancer in the folk dance performance group Up North, and is also working on a dance and music project together with the music group Väsen.
Vegar Vårdal, originally from Norway’s southwest coast, is a multi-talented, professional teacher and performer of dance, hardanger fiddle, and flatfiddle. He has been involved in many recordings both as musician and producer, including the multi-volume set of tunes for Norske Turdansar. He’s a class A fiddler, and has been awarded numerous prizes and stipends. He likes to work on dance basics, and the marriage of music and dance. He also teaches swing and tango!
State-Side Staff
Roo Lester and Larry Harding are returning to NFF and will share their broad experience and delightful teaching style with us. They are especially welcoming and helpful to new campers and less experienced dancers while deeply respected and favorite teachers of more experienced dancers as well.
Toby Weinberg joins staff this year as
hardanger fiddler. Toby is known for his passionate devotion to the Telemark
idiom, which he has represented at countless dances and workshops around
the U.S.
He'll be teaching beginning seljefløyte (if you have one, please
bring it).
Peter Michaelsen will lead the gammaldans band this year. A veteran of Scandi-camps from coast to coast, Peter has become an NFF regular, and says he looks forward to rocking out with the band.
BUFFALO GAP COMMUNITY CAMP is in Capon Bridge, WV, near Winchester, VA, about 2 hours west of Washington, DC. It is a rustic 200 acre camp with a beautiful, open-air, covered dance pavilion overlooking a small, private swimming lake with a sandy beach (bathing suits are optional) and a wood burning sauna at one end. Cabins are nestled in the hill surrounding the pavilion. Some are only screened in, others are more enclosed. The bathrooms facilities range from sinks and toilets in the cabin and group showers, to rennovated full bathrooms shared by 3 to 4 rooms. Expect to share a cabin with up to 8 people. You are welcome to bring a tent for more privacy.
T-Shirt Design
This year we're offering several different color choices and a choice of styles (regular or women's cut). Take a look at the pictures, but remember you monitor may not display the colors exactly.
To order a specific color, you must email fiddlesandfeet@bellsouth.net or call (865) 522-0515 by June 3. If you pre-ordered a shirt and do not call or email, you will get a regular style shirt in sapphire.
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Sapphire |
Pine  (click to enlarge) |
Violet |
Yellow |
Women's cut |
| Regular t-shirts ($15) size Small to XXL: Sapphire Pine Violet Yellow Haze |
Long sleeved t-shirts ($22) and sweatshirts ($30) size Small to XXL Indigo (blue-grey) |
Children's sizes ($15) Sapphire Violet Yellow Haze |
Women's cut t-shirts ($15) size Small to XXL: Violet Yellow Haze (the above pictures show styles, not colors) |
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Tote bags ($20) Description: 100% cotton, 12 oz. Self-fabric handles; inside zippered hanging pocket; zippered closure. Dimensions: 17-1/2" x 15" x 4-1/2". |
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