Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra

It's been more than five years since we first checked in with Norway's Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra, so there’s a lot to catch up on. Originally inspired by the Oscar-nominated Belgian film Broken Circle Breakdown, the Oslo-based band — consisting of

Joakim Borgen, co-founder of Norway's popular Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra, has announced his decision to leave the group. Borgen founded the group with Rebekka Nilsson, after the two saw the 2012 Belgian film, Broken Circle Breakdown, a tragic romance which was set

The distance separating Norway from North America seems insignificant when Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra take the stage and share the sounds inspired by their seminal influences. After making their mark with Migrants, their well-received debut, the eight piece ensemble take things

The Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra, based in Oslo, has received a Norwegian Grammy nomination for their debut album, Migrants. An unusually large congregation, HBO contains eight members - hence the orchestra in the name - and also has an unusual genesis. Vocalists

Better known as the land of the midnight sun than as a place where the grass grows blue, Norway has nevertheless managed to spawn a band that stays true to tradition despite the seeming disparity between Scandinavia and Appalachia. Based in

We have had occasion several times to write about Norway's Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra. They are interesting and divergent in a number of ways, outside of the band's unusual name. It's perfectly fitting, as they are an eight piece group, hence

Norway's Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra has another single today from their upcoming album, Migrants, a new song written by vocalist Rebekka Nilsson and mandolinist Joakim Borgen. If you were watching the Bluegrass Ramble concerts during the virtual World of Bluegrass last month,

One silver lining to losing all access to live, in-person music performance this past few months is the abundance of recorded bluegrass that has been coming out in the same time frame. We hear almost every day about new singles

Norway's Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra has just released a third single from their upcoming debut album. It's one they wrote called Pickin' On Me, which has some fun with the way that the word pickin' has a dual meaning in English. Of

Regular readers will remember us writing about Norway's Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra, a larger-than-usual aggregation of grassers founded and maintained by Joakim Borgen and Rebekka Nilsson. The pair have combined their love of their native Nordic folk inheritance, and their deep fondness for