Frigg from Scandinavia to come to CFA

Hot fiddle group from Scandinavia visit to Platteville:
PLATTEVILLE-The Center for the Arts Performing Arts Series at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville presents Nordic folk group Frigg, October 15th at 7:30pm.
Acoustic Nordic folk music is advanced by the next generation through Frigg, a new group rich with folk heritage from Finland and Norway. Combining elements of their respective folk traditions with touches of American Appalachian and country & western music, they create an entirely new sound which feels simultaneously innovative and familiar.
The seven-piece band contains 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 the US, creating a phenomenal buzz among listeners and fellow musicians in the process.
Frigg has been catching ears on both sides of the Atlantic with their self-titled CD released in 2002, Oasis in 2005, and most recently their newest CD Economy released October 21st of this year. During an appearance on Garrison Keillor's famous public radio show “A Prairie Home Companion” Frigg had the studio audience baying for an encore. That's the way it's turning out wherever they play.
Tickets for this event are $14 for General Admission $12 for Faculty and Senior Citizens $10 for Kids Under 18 and $5 for UWP Students (with current ID).
Tickets are available through the University Box Office in the Center for the Arts the University Box Office is open Monday through Friday 8am-5pm and can be reached by calling (608)-342-1298. The University Box Office is located in newly renovated Ullsvik Hall located at the intersection of Hickory and Main Streets in Platteville. Tickets are now available online 24/7 at http://tickets.uwplatt.edu. More information on the Performing Arts Series and other performance events can be found at http://uwplatt.edu/arts/cfa.





