Annbjorg Lien News Today

The Loveliest Rose, by Bukkene Bruse. This group is wonderful, and this is one of my favorite albums. They are led by the fantastic and cute as a bug’s ear fiddler Annbjorg Lien, who has several albums of her own (check out her website). I quite like Scandinavian folk music, especially fiddle music, because, mainly,…

Her stay in the Boston area was a relatively brief one, but the area’s folk/traditional music scene made an impression on Vermont fiddler-vocalist Lissa Schneckenburger, and she returned the favor.The Maine native came to town in the late 1990s as a student in New England Conservatory and spent quite a bit of time in local sessions and contra dances, and a number of

Folk artist Tom Russell brings his family saga to Tucson. By Gregory McNamee TRACING FAMILY HISTORY, genealogists will tell you, is an inexact science. Its not so much for lack of data: the world is afloat, after all, in birth and death certificates, deeds, snapshots, home movies. The challenge in uncovering ones roots is more often to separate fact from folklore, to cut through family politics, whitewashing (see Robert Altmans new film Cookies Fortune for a case in point) and wishful thinking ...