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The album «Hold dæ på vingan» («Stay on your wings») shows Susanne Lundeng’s strong need to explore outside the traditional musical borders, when she uses and mixes what she has collected of fiddle and folk tunes from Northern Norway with life’s tender intensity. She has been one of Norway’s most active folk musicians in 30 years and this marks the release of her 12th album.

The last years she has developed from being one of Norway’s most celebrated fiddlers to being an award-winning text writer. In 2019 she received NOPA’s text award for the title song from her last album “Det va nære på” (“That was close”) (2018), her first release with self-written texts. The jury described it as “an innovative, banality-free treasure that is based on the big, as well as the simple questions, with playful and explorative language”.

The fiddle is still in the centre when she, together with Nils-Olav Johansen and Swedish Erik Nylander, portrays a playful and expressive ensemble playing, colored by traditional music from the world in a symbiosis of jazz, folk singing and Northern Norwegian traditional music.

Susanne Lundeng is a Norwegian traditional folk musician and composer; her main
instrument is the fiddle. She has the core of the northern folk music in her writing and at the same time she
draws inspiration from jazz, contemporary and folk traditions from other cultures.