{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/63234ba56042d8001323fb02/63f9f9b26c3fc0001113661c?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Deep Culture","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/63234ba56042d8001323fb02/1677326737144-a1035dc55704ff0c805e338d0797cd3a.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Come with me on a pilgrimage to the tiny mountain village of Vågå – together with 800 other people. They have been drawn there by one passion, one hunger. To hear the music of the Hardanger fiddle. Delicate and decorative – muscular and feisty. With this podcast, I am doing penance for past sins, having previously believed the Hardanger fiddle to be near-obsolete, a museum piece. And its music unsophisticated. How wrong I was! Hearing the instrument at its mysterious and magnificent best – as played by virtuoso Ottar Kåsa – opened a gateway for me to deep Norwegian culture. It achieves a modern miracle: to be vigorously and unsentimentally alive, while maintaining a musical inheritance. And it also connected up with the deep culture of my own background, on the west coast of Ireland.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>EPISODE PHOTO</p><p>Detail of Hardanger fiddle made in 1911–12 by Olav Eivindsen Bakkene, Telemark i 1911-12. The instrument belongs to Telemark Museum.&nbsp;</p><p>From: digitalmuseum.no</p><p>Photo: Bård Løken</p><p>Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0</p><p><br></p><p>CONTACT</p><p>Twitter: (a)northbynorway</p><p>Email: northbynorway(a)gmail(.)com</p><p><br></p><p>MORE INFO</p><p>andrewjboyle(.)com</p><p><br></p><p>THANKS</p><p>to Ottar Kåsa for permission to use his recording of <em>Høgsetbenken</em> (springar after Myllarguten)</p>","author_name":"Andrew J. Boyle"}