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Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra

  • The Broken Circle Sessions – Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra

    April 10, 2023 | by Lee Zimmerman

    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

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  • Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra nominated for Norwegian Grammy

    March 7, 2022 | by John Lawless

    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

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  • Bluegrass Beyond Borders: Norway’s Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra

    June 17, 2021 | by Lee Zimmerman

    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

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  • Migrants album release concert from Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra

    March 22, 2021 | by John Lawless

    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

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  • Smokey Mountain Railway from Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra

    October 9, 2020 | by John Lawless

    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,

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  • Take Me Away, new single from Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra

    May 20, 2020 | by John Lawless

    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

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  • Pickin’ On Me from Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra

    April 17, 2020 | by John Lawless

    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

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  • All My Tears drops for Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra

    February 21, 2020 | by John Lawless

    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

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  • Afraid Of Walking drops for Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra

    November 25, 2019 | by John Lawless

    Norway's Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra has released the first single from their upcoming album, Migrants. The eight-piece band plays an interesting mix of roots music, drawing on bluegrass and old time Appalachian music, as well as Norwegian, Celtic, and Anglo-Saxon folk

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  • Bluegrass Beyond Borders: Norway’s Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra taps traditions

    September 26, 2019 | by Lee Zimmerman

    Norway is, of course, known mostly as “The Land of the Midnight Sun,” but if the duo that’s the basis of Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra have their way, it might someday be referred to as “The Land Down Home.” That’s a stretch

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