by Kaycee Boe | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | August 2nd, 2017
Norwegian native Aurora has achieved international recognition in her genre and has followings in the United States and Canada. Aurora is relatively new to the music scene, putting out her first studio album in 2016. This interview took place at OverOslo, the annual music festival on a hill overlooking the Oslo harbor.
Her first album: “All my Demons Greeting me as a Friend” (2016)
High Plains Reader: You’re from a pretty small place in Norway, what was that like growing up?
Aurora:…
by Kaycee Boe | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | August 2nd, 2017
Sondre Lerche was born in Bergen on the west coast, the second largest city in Norway. He has just released his eighth album, “Pleasure” (2017). This interview took place at OverOslo, the annual music festival on a hill overlooking the Oslo harbor.
HPR: How has being from Norway affected your music both when you started and now?
Sondre Lerche: It’s always hard to say because it’s all I know, but when you are young growing up here, you listen to mainly music from other places,…
by HPR Contributor | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | July 18th, 2017
By Mrisha Sharma
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Photos: Mrisha Sharma
“I really enjoy being a functional human being in the society, still living like this. This way of life is actually working out and I am actually happy with it.”
Ida Frisch and her boyfriend, Martin Osvold, are temporarily crashing in an art studio in Hausmania, located in the center of Oslo, Norway. Hausmania was an abandoned building occupied by squatters until 1999. Now it is a cultural center for artists and musicians in…
by HPR Contributor | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | July 12th, 2017
By Amber Ainsworth arainswo@umich.edu
Photo by: Amber Ainsworth
Justin Chirico and his wife, Sarah Chirico-Wyss, live in Glåmos, a village just north of Rørøs, Norway. They have 10 Alaskan huskies and a black labrador named Belmont who is training to be a rescue dog and a bed bug sniffing dog.
Sarah races the dogs competitively, while Justin prefers to take the dogs out for fun and doesn’t have any interest in mushing. Together they train the animals that they consider part of their…
by Jack Hastings | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | June 28th, 2017
Photo credit: Jack Hastings
Josef Yohannes is the creator of “The Urban Legend,” about the protagonist he claims is the first Norwegian superhero. The comic series features a black African immigrant who fights street crime with martial arts skills, protects the innocent, and is committed to justice in the fictional setting of Capital City, a city ravaged by corruption.
The first issue of “The Urban Legend” was published in January 2012 in Norway. The comic was received with…
by HPR Contributor | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | June 28th, 2017
By Amber Ainsworth
Rockslo, a concert association in Norway’s capital city of Oslo, introduces youth to music by immersing them in the process of planning and executing concerts.
Since 2013, Rockslo has been a place for young people to work behind the scenes in the music industry. From booking to marketing to technical work to production, youth under the age of 20 learn the ins and outs of what goes into planning shows, by fully planning concerts with the guidance of adult volunteers.…
by Jack Hastings | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | June 21st, 2017
Photos by Jack Hastings
As music festivals in Norway grow, the danger of attending a concert also rises. The Manchester bomb attack following an Ariana Grande concert killed 23 attendees and wounded many more. Festival and concert organizers in the U.K., the U.S., and Norway, which has one of the highest per capita music event attendance rates in the world, are keenly aware of security concerns.
The repercussions of the UK attack can be seen in the U.S. as additional security precautions…
by HPR Contributor | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | June 21st, 2017
By Kaycee Boe and Rachel Levy
Carrol Juven, 80, enters the Radisson Blu hotel in Oslo, Norway with a bright red jacket and a walking stick and greets his long-time friend Karl Nyland. This is Juven’s 154th trip to Norway, and the Radisson is his favorite hotel.
Juven is the operator of Juven Tours and Travel Inc., a Fargo-based travel agency that hosts Americans on Norwegian cultural tours.
He started his travel company in 1966, when he would charter flights for the Sons of Norway. By…
by HPR Staff | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | July 13th, 2016
Saturday, July 16, 9:30pm
Aquarium, 226 Broadway, 2nd floor, Downtown Fargo
The Virginia-based experimental metal band. Don’t miss this one. “Early reports from the tour are raving about their live show,” says Chris Hennen. Withered are from Atlanta, call themselves “tortured, blackened doom/death metallers.” 21+, $8
by HPR Contributor | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | July 1st, 2016
by Angie Perez
Black Metal in Norway as we know it is strongly associated with Satanism, occult, violence, burning down of Christian churches and men wearing all black attire looking like they just stepped out of hell. In today’s metal scene some will argue that the genre has fallen into the shadows of pop and alternative music.
The five member Norwegian Metal band, Shot At Dawn, has decided to break up after 11 years of making music. The band performed their last gig at Aye Aye Club…
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