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2.7: Hardanger Fiddle Performance, 1940

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    An audio element has been excluded from this version of the text. You can listen to it online here: https://wisc.pb.unizin.org/driftless/?p=1101

    This recording is of fiddler Dagny Andrea Veum Quisling (1869-1952) of Madison playing a Halling, an athletic rural Norwegian dance that involves leaps and kicks performed by young men.

    Quisling was born in Fyredal, Telemark, Norway, a stronghold for Hardanger fiddlers. Her husband was Sverre Quisling, a physician in Madison. Sometimes called Andrea, Quisling was the only woman active in the Kappleik (Competitions) of the Hardanger Fiddle Association of America. She competed in a 1921 Kappleik in Mount Horeb. Please visit the HFAA for more information: www.hfaa.org/Home/articles-on...-united-states

    1921, Mt. Horeb, WI
    Over 8,000 attend this Kappleik!

    Winners: Eilef Smedal , Harald Smedal
    Participants: Tolleif Strand (Chippewa Falls, WI), Eilef Smedal (La Crosse, WI), Harald Smedal (McFarland, WI), Andrea Quisling (Madison, WI), Hans Fykerud (Stoughton, WI), Bjørgulv Bjørnaraa (Wanke, MN), Sjur Bjotveit (Chicago, IL), Helge Thyresen (Dentybow, MN), John Gudvangen (Chicago, IL), I.G. Nordgaard (Setesdal), Olav Smedal (Albert Lea, MN), S. Indeleggen (Chicago, IL), Gunnar Helland (Chippewa Falls, WI)

    This recording was produced by Helene Stratman-Thomas for the Library of Congress on May 16, 1940.

    Many thanks to Professor James Leary for this information and recording.


    This page titled 2.7: Hardanger Fiddle Performance, 1940 is shared under a CC BY license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Ann Smart Martin (University of Wisconsin Pressbooks) .

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