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Nysgjerrig student reiser til Amerika Curious
student travels to America The
folk music from Drevja is
something many from the community of Vefsn are proud of. In January
Anniken Solli Mork is travelling to Minnesota in the north of America,
to do some research. She is seeking how the folk-music from Drevja which
the emigrants brought to America
sounds like. Anniken is a student of music at the NTNU in Trondheim, and she is doing a master-degree, she will write about folk music from Vefsn, and do some research about the music that the emigrants took with them to America. Anniken is very interested in Norwegian folk-music, and especially the music from Vefsn. Her grandfather Walter Solli, was for some people a famous "fiddler" (violinist) from Drevja, and it's because of him her interest of folk-music started. We find little material about folk-music from Nordland and the Northern parts of Norway, compared to the east of Norway. Anniken is trying to do something about that. Before she travels to America she is collecting melodies, sheet-music lyrics and recordings that she will use to compare with the material she finds in America. Folk-musicians normally plays by ear, therefore is it a possibility that melodies have changed with time. She travels to America 20. January and will be there for two weeks, together with her relatives Roz Gilbert and Art Hennington. Anniken will try to work her way to the roots of Norwegian folk-music in Minnesota. Literature
and old recordings is something she will look for there. She thinks it
could be difficult, but not impossible. She will try to find
similarities and differences on the folk music that was played by
emigrants and those who didn't go to America. Knut Erik Solli Solheim |