Visual and Performing Arts
The Beaumier Heritage Concert Series and 2025 Winter Roots Festival are proud to announce a performance by the Finnish folk supergroup, Frigg, on Thursday, February 27 at 7:30 p.m. The concert will be held in the Reynolds Recital Hall on the campus of Northern Michigan University. Advanced tickets for the concert can be purchased online at tickets.nmu.edu.
The prices are as follows:
General Public - $20 adv./$22 door
NMU Students and under 18 - $10 adv/$12 door
Due to the limited number of seats, advanced ticket purchases are highly encouraged.
This concert will be part of the 2025 Winter Roots Festival which is a collaboration between the Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center, Hiawatha Traditional Music Coop, the Peter White Public Library and the City of Marquette Arts and Culture Center. For more information visit, www.nmu.edu/beaumier or call 906-227-3212. To purchase tickets over the phone call 906-227-1032.
Here is a video of Frigg performing live: https://youtu.be/8VsaplLkEck?si=Ed9vqHp9tWQbJvOe
It’s February 2000. A group of teenage folk music enthusiasts spend a weekend shut away in Pelimannitalo, a folk music house in Kaustinen – the heart of Finnish folk music. Violins are played, musical thoughts flying about, new songs learned with gusto. A true passion for traditional Nordic music is audible, visible and aglow! The first demo tapes are recorded, and the future is being planned. This group starts calling itself Frigg.
The band’s line-up is established as an ensemble of four violins, string instruments and a double bass. In the spring of 2002, the band’s first album is published, and Frigg is becoming a popular topic of discussion amongst the Nordic folk music circles. As the Nordics become ever smaller, European folk music events quickly become familiar to the band.
Frigg’s pace only accelerates and a hunger for more grows. Their music is living and taking on new directions and nuances. Audiences are in awe of the band’s ability to transport listeners to traditional Finnish polska, bluegrass and Balkan rhythms and all the way to the dynamics of classical music, as if there were multiple groups performing on stage! The tight ensemble performance and a candid stage presence work. Frigg is able to turn their gigs into a scenic experience, giving their listeners a break from the greyness of the world.
Frigg will go on to visit the WOMAD Festival at the invitation of the BBC, visit the Rainforest World Music Festival in the rainforests of Borneo, and tour Japan and Australia. The joyful Nordic folk music laced with Bluegrass is a knockout in North America and one state after the other get their share of Frigg fever. As icing on the cake, Frigg is invited to perform at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival along with the best of the best in Roots music. In addition to their own concerts, the band performs spectacular projects together with symphony orchestras, choirs and brass bands. New music is released at a steady pace, with albums repeatedly appearing in the listings and raving album reviews of fRoots, Songlines, Rhythms.au and numerous other world music portals.
And now, after two decades, ten albums, around a thousand gigs in thirty countries and tens of thousands of kilometers travelled, that same passion still burns. The hypnotic combination of that now- famous violin sound, the irresistible forward-pushing strum of string instruments and the pulse from the double bass, all together continue to create new paths. Just like the steady flow of a mountain stream in the springtime, the origins of which are precisely known.
For more information visit www.nmu.edu/beaumier or call 906-227-3212. To purchase tickets over the phone call 906-227-1032.
