Viking Fest 2014 planned at Scandinavian East Coast Museum on Saturday, May 17
The Scandinavian East Coast Museum will be hosting its annual Viking Fest 2014 on Saturday, May 17th from 10:00 am – 5:00 pm at Bliss/Owl’s Head Park, located at 68th Street & Narrows Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. This year the event is beginning two hours earlier and will feature its “Viking Village” from 10:00 am – noon, with the Norseman, half-size replica Viking ship and crew, the Society for Creative Anachronism and Historic Arms. *Please note that these groups will be displaying and exhibiting during the entire event.
Featured guests from Norway include: the Sandnes Trekkspill Orkester – accordion band and Sandnes Folkedanslag – Folk Dancers from the town of Sandnes. The other Norwegian guests are musicians from Maya’s School of Performing Arts playing traditional music on traditional instruments – Eli Storbekken: song and sallow flute/ Seljefløyte-Maya Østhassel on lyre/harp; Mary Barthelemy on fiddle/ Harlingfele, flutes and ram’s horn; Magnar Storbækken on ram’s horn” /”goat horn and Lur.
A note of interest, one of Magnar’s horns (a real “ram’s horn” /”goat horn”!) is played on the soundtrack to the Disney film FROZEN.
Of course they will have the popular “Touched By the Vikings” performances featuring music and dance from cultures that have a connection to the Vikings. They hope to have: Clann Eirann Pipers, The Donny Golden School of Step Dance and YDIR (Young Dancers in Repertory), as well as others. Performance schedule will be available in mid-April. They will also have rides, Norwegian food and crafters.
This event is co-sponsored by Councilman Gentile, the Norwegian Consulate in New York, the 17th of May Committee and the Bay Ridge Baptist Church. For further information you can email the organizers at scandia36@optonline.net or call 718-748-5950.
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