Halling frå Lysekil (Band: Vidar Skrede DYNAMO BAND, Album: Organic Polska, Comp.: Vidar Skrede)

Live recording from concert with AAMOS in Rauland, Norway, January 2011.

Eternal Lea / Upo Fetlar Top (comp.: Mark Laurenson / comp.: Vidar Skrede)

Sandy Ower da Lea / Da Cross Reel / Untitled / Up Da Stroods Da Sailor Goes (trad.)

Track 4 from the album: Village, with The Secret Carpet Club

Bonden

Track 10 from the album: Village, with The Secret Carpet Club

Tro aldrig

Track 11 from the album: Village, with The Secret Carpet Club

Bullaremarschen

Track 2 from the album: Village, with The Secret Carpet Club
Composed by Vidar Skrede

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Vidar Skrede is a Nordic folk musician and composer from Haugesund, Norway, currently living in Milwaukee, WI. He is a performer and a teacher of Harding-fiddle, fiddle, and guitar. He has a background in traditional music from his home area, Rogaland (South West of Norway), and has a master’s degree in performing Nordic folk music at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm. 

Vidar has numerous bands, projects, and record albums behind him, both in Scandinavia and in North America. He has received nominations and awards for his albums in both Norway and Finland. He has toured all of the Nordic countries, Scotland, Canada, and the United States, and he has performed with a wide range of artists, such as Arja Saijonmaa (FI), Kevin Henderson (UK), Liz Carroll (US), Bruce Molsky (US), Natalie Haas (US), to mention a few artists outside of his own tradition.

Vidar is a leading musician on the Nordic folk music scene and is well known for his own tune creations across the scene; played and recorded by many artists besides himself.

Vidar Skrede

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