Midsummer Pole Ceremony and Ring Dances
Midsummer Pole Ceremony and Ring Dances
Midsummer Pole Ceremony and Ring Dances
11:15 - Procession and Raising of the Midsummer Pole. Celebrate the return of Summer! Join in on the fun and festive traditional Ring Dancing. Not to be missed!
The Vikings are Coming!
Midsummer Pole Ceremony and Ring Dances
Midsummer Pole Ceremony and Ring Dances
The Boston Viking Irish thrill and entertain with a historical Viking encampment, ongoing live combat demos, Viking era crafts and interactive games.
Like Mormor used to make! Homemade Swedish Meatball Lunch
2025 Artists to be announced. In 2024 we featured live music with lydia ievins!
2025 Artists to be announced. In 2024 we featured live music with lydia ievins!
12:00-3:00 Swedish meatballs and creamy gravy, mashed potatoes, quick-pickled cucumber salad, lingonberry preserves, and limpa (Swedish rye) with butter. $14.
Continuous seating under the Pavilion and in our air-conditioned Lounge.
2025 Artists to be announced. In 2024 we featured live music with lydia ievins!
2025 Artists to be announced. In 2024 we featured live music with lydia ievins!
2025 Artists to be announced. In 2024 we featured live music with lydia ievins!
lydia ievins, (https://lydiamusic.org/) plays nyckelharpa and five-string fiddle for Scandinavian and English Country dancing. Her absolute favorite thing about playing in either genre is the opportunity to improvise rich harmonic lines. As an avid dancer herself, she infuses her playing with rhythmic clarity and sensitive phrasing to make it irresistibly danceable. Deeply immersed in exploring Swedish fiddling traditions, lydia is the only fiddler in the US who has earned both a bronze Zorn medal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorn_Badge) and a "diplom efter brons" in Sweden, for her fiddling in the Uppland tradition.
A highly respected performer and teacher, lydia has appeared at the Newport Folk Festival and Kaustinen (Finland) Folk Music Festival, as well as at Scandinavian museums and cultural centers across the US. Inspired by her 2012–13 year of study at the Eric Sahlström Institute with some of Sweden's best fiddle and nyckelharpa teachers, lydia has since focused her teaching on finding fun and effective ways to share those insights. Together with fiddler Andrea Larson she developed Träd Weekend,
a popular intensive workshop for Scandi-interested dance musicians.
1:00 pm - Pavilion Stage
2:10 pm - Dome Room Stage (playing for dance)