Vidar Skrede (born 1980 in Norway) was a multi instrumentalist and a folk music artist already as a teenager. Today his instruments are hardanger violin, fiddle, 5-string octave viola, 6 and 12 string guitars, Greek bouzouki, bodhrán, whistles, mountain flute and willow flute, and he has been doing concerts, touring and working with music both in Norway and abroad.
The music of Vidar Skrede is folk music from his home area in Rogaland in the South West of Norway, but also Nordic folk music and urban folk music, and fusion of this. In other words the musical expression and style stretches from the exotic traditionally to the modern and urban, through own compositions, band playing and expanding of the genre.
Vidar Skrede is heard in bands like “Geitungen†(NO), “Stimenn†(NO/SE), “Nomas†(NO/SE/DK/FI), “Vidvandre†(NO/SE), “Fant&Fente†(NO), “Vidar&Laffen†(NO) and “The Great Norwegian Guitar Quartet†(NO). He is also contributing on recordings like “Geitungen – Vaniljesaus†(2001), “Geitungen – BRA KAST†(2005), “Gry Oftedal – Tvilevise†(2005), “Synnøve Sletten – Nattfiol†(2005) and “Liv Runesdatter – Syng hjerte†(2008). The album, “Geitungen – BRA KASTâ€, won the prize for best album of the year in open / experimental category at Norwegian folk music awards 2005.
For more information about Vidar Skrede please visit:
www.vidarskrede.no
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