November 2018 (Sonia White leading Spelmannslag)<\/strong> I was very gratified to have a strong turnout for the rehearsal. This included members from the Washington’s Spelmanslag that I co-lead. It was great to have cross-over between the different groups in our area that play Scandinavian music. Everyone was very well prepared, which made the rehearsal fun. At the end of our hour-long rehearsal we went downstairs in the Greenbelt Community Center and played those tunes for the dancers. It is a very special experience for a musician to play with dancers swirling around you, and to see and feel the interaction between musicians and dancers. This dance had a strong turnout of enthusiastic dancers and a wonderful energy was felt by all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After the group photo and break for snacks and announcements, my former student Laura Hummel and I played the next set: <\/p>\n\n\n\n After some recorded music for Norwegian tunes on Hardingfele, Laura and I played Klockar Andersson’s Vals for a mixer, then I played solo:<\/p>\n\n\n\n After attending this dance as a dancer for over 12 years it was very exciting to be asked to be the featured musician and lead the spelmanslag for an evening. I loved doing it, and am happy I will be doing this again as soon as November 2019. In the meantime, I am happily dancing at third Saturday ScandiaDC dances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was thrilled to be asked to be the featured dance musician at our monthly Scandinavian dance in Greenbelt, MD. I did this for the first time in November 2018. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[11,12,13],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regular-post","tag-dance-musician","tag-nyckelharpa","tag-scandinavian-dance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
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Vol. VI – No. 13: Pols fra Brekken<\/a>: R\u00f8rospols
Vol. I – No. 6: Ore-valsen<\/a>: Vals
Vol. X – No. 2: Polska efter Strom Erik<\/a>: Gammalpolska fr\u00e5n F\u00f6llinge
Vol. I – No. 14: Hambo p\u00e5 logen<\/a>: Hambo
Vol. X – No. 33: Nerifra<\/a>: Bingsj\u00f6 Polskor
Vol. I – No. 12: Sommervals<\/a>: Vals
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Dance<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/td> Tune<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/td><\/tr> SCHOTTIS (Mixer: Bugg Schottis)<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/td> Schottis e Anders Dahl<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/td><\/tr> SL\u00c4NGPOLSKA eller Bingsj\u00f6<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/td> Polska efter Sven Donat<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/td><\/tr> LILLH\u00c4RDAL (Polketeering, Hambo, Bakmes) *<\/em><\/strong><\/td> Polska #21 efter Olof L\u00f6fgren i Sveg <\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/td><\/tr> HAMBO ***<\/em><\/strong><\/td> Myrvilles Hambo<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/td><\/tr> BODA POLSKA<\/em><\/strong><\/td> Maka er du Britta<\/em><\/strong><\/td><\/tr> SNOA ***<\/em><\/strong><\/td> Snoa_Boda_spelmanslag<\/em><\/strong><\/td><\/tr> FINNSKOGSPOLS *<\/em><\/strong><\/td> Fanteladda<\/em><\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.soniasvikt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_20181117_205144189_HDR-2.jpg?resize=588%2C441\")
ORSA POLSKA<\/em><\/strong><\/td> Systerpolska no. 2<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/td><\/tr> HAMBO<\/em><\/strong><\/td> Vigers Polska fr\u00e5n Jarvsj\u00f6<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/td><\/tr> NORSKLEITJEN from F\u00d6LLINGE<\/em><\/strong><\/td> Polska efter Olof Olsson, Sl\u00e4tten<\/em><\/strong><\/td><\/tr> SCHOTTIS<\/em><\/strong><\/td> Lana-villes Schottis<\/em><\/strong><\/td><\/tr> VALS<\/em><\/strong><\/td> Idioten fr\u00e5n Enviken<\/em><\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n
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