Talk:Nordic music

Traditional folk music and folk dance
Hello. I have just added some preliminary info on traditional folk music and folk dance. I know a little bit about it, but not much and I hope other editors will find inspiration to add stuff. It is a quite rich culture, with several variations, also in the traditional dresses used. I don't know if we should write about garments on this page though? RhinoMind (talk) 14:43, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

If we include the Faroes, Iceland and Greenland, things really starts to get interesting. The Faroes has a very strong folk music and dance tradition that is still very much alive. Look up the Olaj fest for example, where common people dance trhough the streets together once a year. I don't know how things are in Iceland. In Greenland they have a very different folk music and dance tradition, including the shamanic dances. Very interesting stuff. Oh, and by the way, the Sami people of Northern Norway, Sweden and Finland, should not be forgotten. This happens all too often! They have their very own culture and is indeed also part of the Nordic countries folk traditions. RhinoMind (talk) 14:48, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

Commented out listings
These listings were commented out with no explanation. I guess they might have been suspended, but I think they are more editor-visible here, and a long commented out section is confusing when trying to add a listing at the right place in the list. –LPfi (talk) 09:19, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
 * These festivals are suspended, and unlikely to be revived soon. The sites have some historical importance, but there is not much there to do today. /Yvwv (talk) 11:21, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Festivals The Thing?
While I think the removal of repetition and other clean-up in these edits was good, a side effect was that Understand now only talks about festivals, which is misleading. There are a lot of possibilities to attend concerts or otherwise listen to music around the year, and I assume that is of interest also for visitors, and not mentioning them can make readers think the festivals are the only worthwhile thing music-wise.

At least in Finland, most every city has a municipal philharmonic orchestra, many smaller towns have music institutes with chamber music concerts, university students have their bands, and choirs are ubiquitous. Many pubs have regular live performances by local bands, troubadours or other musicians, and there is the occasional big star concert. I don't know how this compares to where visitors come from and what they would expect, but I think there should be at least a paragraph or two on this in Understand, unless things differ too much between countries.

–LPfi (talk) 14:23, 4 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Certainly there are lots of ways to enjoy Nordic music outside festivals. So many that it is difficult to describe concisely; not sure where to begin. /Yvwv (talk) 14:29, 4 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Yes. I don't think we should try to cover the topic, but rather hint on there being other options than those we describe. With that done, we can add the most interesting or ubiquitous options. –LPfi (talk) 15:53, 4 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Agreed, in addition to what LPfi just mentioned there are events that aren't mainly about music and song but do include it (Medieval festivals, Christmas events etc). --Ypsilon (talk) 16:19, 4 November 2022 (UTC)