The Prøysen Festival
Welcome to the Prøysen Festival in Ringsaker municipality. The festival is in the month of July.
Welcome to the Prøysen Festival
The Prøysen Festival Bluebell Week is held in July every year.
Alf Prøysen (23 July 1914 – 23 November 1970) was a Norwegian singer and writer who was active from 1945 until his death in 1970. He worked in several different media: books, newspapers, stage, gramophone records, radio and television. Many of his songs and stories have become popular in Norway.
Most of Alf Prøysen's stories and songs take place in an environment similar to the village where he grew up: in Hedmarken in the 1920s and 1930s; between the farm workers on large farms and between neighbours and family members on smallholdings. It is especially his earliest texts that take place in the farm worker environment. In the 1960s, the songs and stories are more and more about the general public, regardless of whether they are rich or poor.
There are different opinions about what the message was in his stories and songs: some believe that it is about how poverty and envy destroy people, some think it is cozy stories from the old days, while others again think that Alf Prøysen was good at showing why people behave the way they did.
Read more about the Prøysen Festival on the organizer's website.
The Prøysen Festival Bluebell Week is held in July every year.
Alf Prøysen (23 July 1914 – 23 November 1970) was a Norwegian singer and writer who was active from 1945 until his death in 1970. He worked in several different media: books, newspapers, stage, gramophone records, radio and television. Many of his songs and stories have become popular in Norway.
Most of Alf Prøysen's stories and songs take place in an environment similar to the village where he grew up: in Hedmarken in the 1920s and 1930s; between the farm workers on large farms and between neighbours and family members on smallholdings. It is especially his earliest texts that take place in the farm worker environment. In the 1960s, the songs and stories are more and more about the general public, regardless of whether they are rich or poor.
There are different opinions about what the message was in his stories and songs: some believe that it is about how poverty and envy destroy people, some think it is cozy stories from the old days, while others again think that Alf Prøysen was good at showing why people behave the way they did.
Read more about the Prøysen Festival on the organizer's website.
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