"What the heck is Nisswa-Meeting?"
Nisswa is an Ojibwa word and, of course, the name of one of the prettiest little hamlets in northern Minnesota. Stämman is a Swedish word for a "bunch of people playing music together". The conjunction of the two words is almost poetic!
Nisswa-Meeting is a gathering of fiddlers, nyckelharpers, hardingfele players, accordionists, guitarists, vocalists, (you get the idea), dancers, and general aficionados of Scandinavian folk music here in the "new world". Folk musicians love to have an audience for their art,and a "spelmansstämma" provides the natural canvas for this happy co-mingling of folks.
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