I‘m a songwriter from Norway, brought up on Hardanger Fiddle and cross country skiing. I‘m am also a singer and play guitar player. I come from a small village in the western part of Norway called Ulvik, the most beautiful place in Hardangerfjord. I started to play the Hardanger Fiddle at the age of 7 immediately and fell in love with folk. I write songs in Norwegian since this is my mother tongue and (off course) the language I know the best. But all of my lyrics on the album ‘November’ are translated into English and printed in the CD booklet. You will also find a few traditional songs on the album and some self-penned fiddle tunes.
I studied folk music in Norway at Rauland, Høgskulen i Telemark and at the Ole Bull Academy at the University of Bergen. During my studies in Rauland I got the opportunity to go abroad for a month to study other folk music traditions. I also visited the Shetlands where I fell in love with the music, the people and the Island. I continued to travel back and forth and have been a regular visitor for many years now. I have played with people from the Island and have met people from all over the world through the greatest festival of them all, the Shetland Folk Festival. One of the musicians I met there was Amy Geddes, a Scottish fiddle player, and we started a Norwegian / Scottish / English band together called 38F. The band had only been going for a few years when it was through a demo recording with them that I met Mattie Foulds. He is Karine Polwart‘s husband and the producer of most of her albums. I have been a fan of Karines’ for years, and of her amazing song writing as well as her great voice, but more importantly the the whole sound of her albums. So when Mattie asked if I ever considered doing an solo album and that he would love to produce it, it didn‘t took me long to decide what I wanted to do.
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