About this Event
ASI Presents:
Midwinter Nordic Dance with FRIGG
Sunday, March 2, 2025/ Doors: 5:00 PM / Show: 6:00 PM
All Ages
Standing
$25 General Admission ($20 for ASI Member), $50 Two-Day Pass ($40 ASI Member)
This is a standing show. The Cedar is happy to reserve seats for patrons who require special seating accommodations. To request seating or other access accommodations, please go to our .
General Admission tickets are available .
ABOUT THIS SHOW
The American Swedish Institute Presents the Midwinter Nordic Dance!
ASI’s Midwinter Folk Fest returns this March, offering a vibrant two-day celebration of Scandinavian folk music with performances, workshops, and demonstrations at the American Swedish Institute.
The Cedar hosts the Sunday evening Nordic Dance led by the internationally acclaimed Finnish folk ensemble, FRIGG.
Whether you’re interested in jamming with other musicians, dancing your heart out, or just listening to music, the Midwinter Folk Festival has options for everyone! Bring your friends and enjoy a weekend of music and culture with ASI and the Cedar!
All festival activities will occur at ASI except for the Midwinter Nordic Dance with FRIGG at the Cedar Cultural Center on Sunday evening.
Weekend passes and Sunday tickets get you into the dance after activities wrap up at ASI.
Check back here for a main stage lineup and more festival details!
FRIGG
"Hot fiddles from cool Scandinavia"
"...this is the essence of what the Finnish fiddling fuss is about. The band flies, in a mix of traditional and their own tunes, all shapely, ingenious and delivered with acute mastery and massive swing and energy."
Frigg has been conquering the world with a fusion of western folk music styles leaning strongly towards Nordic folk music, for which the world music media has coined the term nordgrass, referring to the bluegrass influences of the group. The tight interplay offour violins, string instruments and contrabass, fine-tuned to perfection and spiced with sparkling, humorous live-energy has made an impact on listeners all over the world.
Frigg visits the WOMAD festival at the invitation of the BBC, visits the rainforests of Borneo at the Rainforest World Music Festival, tours Japan and Australia. Nordic folk revelry full of bluegrass influences sinks nicely in North America, and state after state gets to experience the effects of the Frigg avalanche. As a cherry on the cake, the band is invited to perform at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival among the world's champions of roots music. In addition to its own concerts, the ensemble carries out several spectacular projects together with symphony orchestras, choirs and wind ensembles. New music is released at a steady pace, with albums repeatedly appearing in lists and rave reviews of the best albums on fRoots, Songlines, Rhythms.au and numerous other world music portals.
Two decades, ten albums, about a thousand gigs in thirty countries and tens of thousands of kilometers later, that same passion is still smouldering. The hypnotic combination of the violin sound, which has already become a concept, and the irresistibly pushing rattle of stringed instruments and the beat of the double bass, continues to create channels like a slowly floating spring mountain stream, the origins of which are precisely known.
To learn more about Frigg:
- Visit their website here
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Cedar Cultural Center, 416 Cedar Avenue South, Minneapolis, United States
