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Interview with a trio of happy Norwegians

4BR Editor Iwan Fox talks to a trio of Norwegians with plenty to celebrate at the IBBSS in Swansea...

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  Norwegian banding has had plenty to celebrate of late — as this trio explain...

Wednesday, 02 August 2017

        

4BR meets up with a trio of young Norwegians with plenty to celebrate in Swansea this year.

Lars Torsvik and Gerd Karine Lunde play for the recently crowned European champion Eikanger-Bjorsvik Musikklag, whilst Lars' brother Sivert is a member of Krohnengen Band.

All this and two of them have just got engaged....

        

TAGS: Eikanger-Bjørsvik

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