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Due to the ongoing pandemic, FinnFest USA chose to go virtual once again after a successful 2021 line-up. This year's online programming includes the Finnish American Folk Arts Series. The first presentation of the year, Fin-A-Billy: American Roots Music and Rebellion in Finland, featured the work of Nathan Gibson.

During the 1970s, there was an enormous American roots music boom in Finland, spawning hundreds of Fin-A-Billy (Finnish rockabilly, country, bluegrass, blues, and related genres) bands with thousands of fans. Folklorist and ethnomusicologist Nathan Gibson will share his research and musical samples of the ways many Finns have connected with American culture through American roots music over the last 60 years.

Nathan Gibson is a folklorist, ethnomusicologist, musician, and the Audio-Visual Preservation Archivist for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At UW–Madison, Nate runs the audio preservation studio at Mills Music Library and works on the “Sustaining Scandinavian Folk Arts in the Upper Midwest” and “Nordic Folklife” projects. He’s also the author of the award winning book, The Starday Story—The House That Country Music Built, and recently completed an amazing musical project called Nate Gibson and the Stars of Starday in which he recorded 24 songs with 14 stars of Starday.

On the other side of the Atlantic, Nathan was a guest researcher at Tampere University between 2012 and 2013, during which time he was researching his dissertation on American Roots Music in Finland and both touring and recording with several Fin-A-Billy bands.

You can find more of Nathan Gibson's work at http://www.nathandgibson.com/

And find a playlist of Fin-A-Billy gems here:    • Fin-A-Billy Gems  

The FinnFest music series is co-hosted by the Sustaining Scandinavian Folk Arts in the Upper Midwest project at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Learn more about the project at https://folklife.wisc.edu/

And visit FinnFest's website at: https://finnfest.us