The austere precincts of the Stockholm Royal Opera House sheltered a surprisingly informal performance recently, when young men and women of the Swedish Youth Goiild for Countryside Culture invaded its stage to execute old-fashioned country dances and sing Swedish folk songs. The rising curtain disclosed to the astonished and delighted audience a lively, crowd of gaily clad dancers and fiddlers wearing the national costumes of the different, provinces, states a correspondent to an exchange. They danced and sang with so much swing and communicative joy “to keep up the old traditions,” that toward the end of the evening the whole of , the audience joined in the singing.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6865, 23 May 1932, Page 2
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