Ole P Gussias

This tape is outside of my wheelhouse as it is all Norwegian speaking and the tunes are very Norwegian on flat fiddle and hardingfele.  This tape was just labeled Gussias.  I had to ask around to many of my Norwegian music friends to come up with an answer.  I was eventually was led to Jorun Marie Kvernberg who is an expert on fiddle music from Romsdal, Norway.  She gave me this answer-

"I believe this is Ole P. Gussiås (1908—2002) from Ranvika in the former Nesset municipality, now Molde municipality. He played both the fiddle and the hardangerfiddle, and learnt tunes from his father, Peder P. Gussiås (1871–1945). I have another recording. I also have copies of several tunes he wrote down from both Romsdal and Nordmøre region. He also had a link to Hustadvika municipality (where I come from) and wrote down tunes from fiddlers there as well".  We can only assume Ole made his way to Wisconsin and visited with Leonard.

Because the tunes are straight from Norway and not Upper Midwest, I am not going to take the time to break it all down into seperate tracks and edit nicely.  But because it is a non-commercial home recording made by Finseth, I am going to share the file here.