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[21 Apr 2010 | 2 Comments | ]
Iceland News Podcast: Episode 2 : Icelandic music history across North America with Bjarki Sveinbjornsson

In the second episode of the Iceland News podcast we talk to the director of Iceland’s music history museum, Bjarki Sveinbjornsson.
We find out about what the museum does and means for the country as well as finding out about Sveinbjornsson’s many trips to North America to record Icelandic music history there.

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[19 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]

- Downtown Toronto from the top of the CN Tower

Iceland News spoke to Kara Schuster, co-chair for the 2010 INL convention in Toronto, who gave us her side of what’s to come.
Saunders: How did you get involved with the Icelandic community in Canada?
Schuster: My uncle once sent me the link to the Toronto newsletter and we didn’t really know anything was going on here. And then they had the Snorri program… it’s an exchange program where you go to Iceland for six weeks and meet quite a bit of your …