Folk Music Academy

The Folk Music Academy

Since 2006 the Folk Music Center in Siglufjordur has organized a Folk Music Academy to coincide with the Folk Music Festival.

The main topics of the Folk Music Academy in Siglufjord will be the different types of Icelandic traditional and folk music, including rimur, tvisöngur, children’s songs, and psalms. Icelandic folk dances will also be introduced, as well as folk music arrangements, vocal improvisation and instrumental tradition.

Students of the Academy will also get to meet visiting artists from other countries who lecture on the traditional and folk music of their home country.

The concluding event of the Academy is the "Harvest night,” where artists, guests and students of the Academy and work shops, will perform.