They Sang for Norway: Olaf Oleson’s Immigrant Choir

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They were brothers from Norway’s “Red County.” One was once a guerrilla leader, the other a president of a singing association. One emigrated to The usa, the other stayed home to fight for Norwegian independence. Both had an have an effect on on their nation’s history. This is the story of the one that left.

Olaf Martin Oleson was once a number of the hundreds of thousands of Norwegians who emigrated to the US all over the nineteenth century. With strongly rooted connections to the homeland, Oleson settled in the Midwest and became a successful businessman, philanthropist, and politician. He also helped form influential organizations in his new land, including the Norwegian-American Historical Association and the Norwegian Singers’ Association of The usa. With the choir group, Oleson shared songs of his native Norway right through North The usa—whilst raising money to toughen the illegal army and new political party forming back home in the fight for liberation from Sweden.

In They Sang for Norway, Ane-Charlotte Five Aarset tells the story of O. M. Oleson—her great-grand-uncle—and his contributions to the politics and culture of two nations. It is an immigrant’s tale, an exploration of Norwegian-American life, and the story of music’s importance to a community and people.

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