BELFAST – Belfast Flying Sneakers and Belfast Summer season Nights, with assist from Viking Lumber, collectively current a night of Scandinavian dancing with music by Finnish supergroup Frigg on Saturday, Aug. 13 at 7 p.m. on the Boathouse at Steamboat Touchdown in Belfast.
The seven musicians in Frigg play violin, mandolin, guitar, and double bass with virtuosity and energy, making a hypnotic sound “just like the regular circulation of a mountain stream within the springtime.” The music will elevate dancers’ toes in new and thrilling methods. Named for the Norse goddess, Frigga, the band has introduced their highly effective music to keen audiences for greater than 20 years.
Initially of this system, all are welcome to hitch a lesson on the slangpolska, an easy-to-learn Scandinavian couple dance. Andrea Larson of higher Washington, DC, one among North America’s premier leaders of Scandinavian couple dancing, will educate the workshop. Larson is an award-winning fiddler well-steeped in Scandi music and dance traditions. For the dance program, Frigg will play tunes for the slangpolska and different Scandinavian dances, together with the schottische, which is often accomplished at native contra dances.
Instructed donation for the dance and workshop is $5-20, sliding scale. Think about carrying a masks when dancing. For information and full public well being coverage, go to belfastflyingshoes.org or fb.com/BelfastSummerNights.
Belfast Summer season Nights presents outside live shows each Thursday all through the summer season, that includes reside music from Waldo County and past. Belfast Flying Sneakers was based in 2005 with a mission to bolster the spirited dance and music group in Midcoast Maine. Among the many native nonprofit’s many applications is a weekly radio hour on Belfast Group Radio (WBFY).
