Gravensar and master fiddler Knut Hamre and shoe player Liv Bernhoft Osa have created a show with fiddles, lyrics and stories that link big and small events in Olav H. Hauge's life.
The language is undoubtedly one of the things that makes Olav H. Hauge such a distinctive and popular poet, both when it concerns his own poems and through his efforts as a poet of poetry from many corners of the world. Hauge wrote with a Nynorsk dialect that is close to High Norwegian. Nevertheless, his words do not seem foreign. They are sound-painting and awe-inspiring and work across generations to make the invisible visible.
«I will never finish Olav H. Hauge. You discover something new all the time. I can let myself be devoured by his diaries for hours, and his long-winded poems and texts give me a glimpse into thoughts and language that lift the everyday and small into something big and universal» Liv Bernhoft Osa
Hamre and Osa have previously made various presentations in teams based on Hauge's texts. They have known each other ever since Knut took up an apprenticeship with Liv's father, Sigbjørn Bernhoft Osa, when he was 13 years old. Since then they have met in various contexts, but the first time they performed together was during the centenary of Geirr Tveitt and Olav H. Hauge at Hardingtonar in 2008.
Now Liv and Knut would like to take the concert "Fela and the Fiddler around Norway" with them. The concert was performed to a full house and to good reviews for the first time during the Osafestivalen at Voss 2023, to the rest of the country.
Tickets at the door NOK 250 / students NOK 150
Pub and dance after the concert
