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Folque has been played on NTS in shows including The Cosmic Principle w/ Nick Mitchell Maiato, featured first on 24 September 2017. Songs played include Skjøn Jomfru.

Folque formed in Oslo in 1972 with the aim of making a Norwegian form of folk-rock, using guitars and banjos instead of the traditional treatment with Hardanger fiddle or solo vocals. Their first album, ‘Folque’ (1974), also included adaptations of two Scottish folk songs (among them "Allison Gross" in a similar arrangement to the 1973 Steeleye Span version, although with Norwegian lyrics), but for the future they stuck to Scandinavian material. For this reason, ‘Kjempene På Dovrefjell’ (1975)…

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Skjøn Jomfru
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Skjøn Jomfru
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