Frigg with Orange Mighty Trio

Crowd-pleasing stars of the 2004 and 2005 Nordic Roots Festivals, the young Finnish/Norwegian string band Frigg return to The Cedar with a great new set of inventive tunes. Using traditional Scandinavian music as the starting point and drawing on their family ties to the great Finnish fiddle ensemble JPP, Frigg create unique string music that also incorporates elements of Celtic folk, and bluegrass and other American folk influences. Don’t miss them on A Prairie Home Companion radio show on Apr 14, then get along to The Cedar Apr 26 to catch them live! Opening will be Minnesota’s brightest young fiddling talent Zack Kline with his experimental trio Orange Mighty Trio, who delve equally fluidly into traditional roots music, classical forms and jazz improvisation.

Frigg is a seven-piece band containing three young Järveläs, two sons and a daughter of the most famous fiddle family in Finland, whose fathers and uncles founded JPP, and two Larsen brothers, members of a comparable Norwegian Hardanger fiddle clan. The traditional sounds are then supercharged with innovative arrangements, and combined with mandola, cittern, double bass, guitar and dobro. This young band has been dazzling festival audiences in Scandinavia and the US with their high energy performances, and creating a phenomenal buzz among listeners and fellow musicians.

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Frigg

Kaustinen, a cluster of villages on the slow-winding River Perho in the western Finnish region of Ostrobothnia, has long been famous for its fiddlers. But, largely as a result of the innovative influence and success of Kaustinen band JPP (the acronym derives...

Orange Mighty Trio

Hailed as “maverick chamber music” by the Minneapolis CityPages, The Orange Mighty Trio (OMT) is an instrumental ensemble featuring Zack Kline on violin, Nick Gaudette on bass, and Mike Vasich on piano. The trio plays a variety of mostly original music,...