All activities take place at Folklore Village, located in a peaceful, rural area about seven miles east of Dodgeville, WI and about a 35-minute drive west of Madison, WI. The beautiful, air-conditioned main hall includes a spacious sprung wooden dance floor and separate classrooms for fiddle instruction.

A printable schedule can be downloaded at the bottom of this page.

Workshops

There are approximately six hours of instruction per day.

Hardingfele. All hardingfele classes are small, with lots of opportunity for individual attention. You need not have played hardingfele or Scandinavian fiddle before, but you should have some solid fiddling skills. It helps to have some degree of proficiency in learning by ear, although this is not a requirement (some written music will be available).

Fiddlers who would like to try hardingfele but do not have an instrument are welcome. Please indicate on the registration form that you would like to borrow an instrument (or indicate if you have one to lend). If you have no fiddling experience, but think you might be interested, you are welcome to audit the beginner’s class.

Dance. The HFAA does not set any gender limitations or experience pre-requisites for our dance workshops. All are welcome to come and learn the HFAA way! Dance students will have the opportunity to dance to live fiddle music and to learn more about it. Individual instruction will be tailored to both beginning and experienced dancers. Also included are special lectures on dance traditions, videotapes, and question-and-answer sessions.

NOTE: The hardingfele and dance classes are taught concurrently. If a student desires to take classes in both fiddling and dancing, it is recommended that he or she sign up for fiddling on Friday and dancing on Saturday.Our instructors will try to accommodate Saturday-only enrollees. It is highly recommended, however, that students attend both the Friday and Saturday sessions, since Saturday's work builds on work done on Friday.

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Lectures and demonstrations on all aspects of Norwegian folk music and dance will occur during the workshops.

Private, 20-minute coaching sessions with the hardingfele teachers are scheduled throughout the weekend to help you solve your individual fiddling problems.

Dance parties. Every evening there will be a dance party. Musicians are invited to play for dancing. Dancing includes not only Valdressringar but also gammeldans and dances from the other valleys. Saturday evening.

Saturday evening begins with a sumptuous Norwegian banquet. Those who choose to do so wear their national costumes. After the banquet, a concert follows that features our master teachers. The evening continues with a dance party for all.

Schedule

Click the Download button below to get a printable PDF version of the 2004 Annual Workshop Events Schedule. This schedule is subject to last-minute changes. Meal times and registration times will not change.

2004 Annual Workshop Events Schedule — Requires Adobe s Reader

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