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Come to the public barn dance on June 27 (corrected) at the rural Decorah home of Craig, Ellen, and Paul Cutting! NEXT HIGHLANDVILLE DANCE: SATURDAY, JULY 18 Foot-Notes performed in San Francisco, California on May 2-3, 2009 as part of that city's annual Norway Day. The festival, held at Fort Mason, included entertainment, cooking and craft demonstrations, educational displays and vendors selling Norwegian crafts, clothing, food, and art. Foot-Notes band members Bill Musser and Jon & Beth Rotto were joined by guest performers Otter Dreaming, Ingrid Rotto and Ida Rotto. View the archived webcast of our concert at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on Sept. 2, 2008! Foot-Notes fiddler and founder Beth Hoven Rotto was featured in the Fall 2008 (v. 15, no. 3) issue of Fiddler Magazine in the first of a series of articles about Norwegian-American fiddlers, written by Julane Lund. The article is available in part on the Fiddler Magazine website: http://www.fiddle.com/articles.htm#3

Beth Hoven Rotto - fiddle
Jon Rotto - guitar, vocals
 Bill Musser  - acoustic bass, vocals

  . . . a lucky throwback, a dash of cold water in the face--
a wake up call, if you will . . . Decorah's marvelous Foot-Notes are
a sprightly quartet which-- for nearly ten years now-- has specialized in
the antiquated, unamplified music of their immigrant Norwegian ancestors . . .
Foot-Notes are a terrific, organic band-- the likes of which
we just haven't found in these parts for some time.
Take the kids and shake your feet ...
----- Jim Musser (no relation to Foot-Notes bassist), music reviewer,
Iowa City Press-Citizen, Iowa City, IA

Site last updated: 21 June 2009

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