Author Archives: vidar

I’m doing a tour between the East Coast and Nashville this month. I’m going solo except for the last show which is with Lynx Lynx. Hope to see you out there 🙂

Lynx Lynx is heading out on our midsummer tour this week! Hope to see you all there 🙂

For more details see my upcoming events or visit www.lynxlynxmusic.com

Check out a few tracks from our recent rehearsals so far this year. This is a work in progress, so it’s far from a final product. But we thought we might share these tracks anyway until we get around to recording our actual album later this year. Enjoy 🙂

NEW DATE!!! APRIL 22nd 🙂

Come and learn a couple of fiddle tunes from Norway with me. We will focus on good jam tunes that you can play with other Scandi musicians and that you can use for years to come. We might also dive into the ornaments and double-stops to achieve an authentic sound, and even some harmonies if we have time. 

The class is suitable for intermediate and advanced players and will be taught on the fiddle. But all fiddle-compatible instruments are welcome! It will also be taught by ear, so bring a recording device. Sheet music will be provided after the class.

For more information and sign-ups, visit: www.vesterheim.org

The first album I ever did and the first album of my old band Geitungen, “Vaniljesaus”, is finally released digitally on Spotify and wherever you stream or download music! “Vaniljesaus” represents and presents both original tunes inspired by local Norwegian folk music and beyond, and the early meeting and the teenage creativity between the boys that formed Geitungen. Many good and charming memories for us here through every track.

Enjoy

I had the pleasure of being “the Norwegian Fiddler” on a symphonic theater adventure with Peer Gynt last week at Bradley Symphony Center in Milwaukee, together with Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Concert Theatre Works, and their wonderful crew! It was a blast and I can’t wait for more

The album “flow” by NOMAS is now available on Bandcamp! NOMAS is the first class of the Nordic Master in folk music (2007-2009), and “flow” happens to be the first album I ever produced.

Enjoy

https://vidarskrede.bandcamp.com/album/flow

My album “Happy Monkey” is now available on my new Bandcamp page! Check it out – follow – and share <3

https://vidarskrede.bandcamp.com/follow_me

Dear all fiddlers and fiddle music lovers! Join me and a wide range of other musicians representing fiddle styles from all over the world through 200 workshops, 35 sessions, and 35 concerts hosted by Fiddle Hell Online, April 15-18, 2021!

I’ll be doing the following events:

4/15 – 11:30 am -12:30 pm EDT
JAM: Nordic Tunes with Vidar Skrede

4/15 – 1:00 pm -2:00 pm EDT
Learn a Simple Tune from Rogaland, Norway

4/15 – 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm EDT
Scandinavian Polish Dances

4/18 – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Fiol Helvete Scandinavian Concert

4/18 – 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm EDT
Achieving an Authentic Touch with Norwegian Ornaments and Double-Stops

Check out all the events and find out more about sign up at:
https://fiddlehell.org/

Hope to see you there 🙂