Andrea Hoag

Andrea Hoag and Loretta Kelley both draw on their knowledge and experiences from years of immersion in Scandinavian folk music traditions to give a lively performance embellished with songs, mouth music, and humorous tidbits of Scandinavian folklore. Ms. HoagÆs specialty is Swedish folk fiddling, a tradition passed down through the generations with an intricate, distinctively harmonized style. Ms. Kelley is an expert on the Hardanger fiddle or hardingfele, a Norwegian fiddle with sympathetic strings that produces brilliant and mesmerizing music that is so unusual that it has been called the ôbest-kept secret of European ethnic music.