Thursday
Art exhibition
Kunst & kaos, 7:00 PM
Free entry
Welcome to this year's art exhibition with this year's festivalartist; Ingrid Viksmo!
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Friday
Pols in 60 minutes,
with John Ole Morken
Rørosmuseet, 6:00 PM-7:00 PM
John Ole Morken comes to Røros Folk Festival to tell the history of pols in 60 minutes. With his fiddle in hand, he tells stories about his old heroes interspersed with Arctic gems and images from the archive. There will also be musical guests.
Fotomontasje: Andreas Ljones
Foto: Ann-Kristin Nilsgård Feragen
Northern Nights / Westberg and The Polsgroovers
sangerhuset, 7:30 PM-10:30 PM
Northern Nights is a collaborative project consisting of some of the most exciting folk musicians from Ireland and Norway. Through an artist residency program in Rauland, they have learned from and inspired each other, which has resulted in a fantastic collaboration.
From Ireland come the four musicians Bríd Harper (fiddle), Ciarán Ó Maonaigh (fiddle), Becky Ní Éallaithe (concertina) and Cathal Ó Curráin (bouzouki/fiddle/vocals).
In addition, four fantastic musicians from Norway will be performing; Unni Boksasp (vocals), Astrid Garmo (Hardanger fiddle), Magnus Wiik (guitar) and Lars Erik Øygarden (hardanger fiddle).
Westberg and the Polsgroovers started in 2025. The group consists of musicians with long and solid experience from various musical contexts.
With Tron Westberg in the front, together with Ole Erik Feragen (fiddle), Per Ivar Tamnes (guitar) and Håvard Dahl (drums), the band delivers raw and uncomplicated folk music with deep roots in the Røros-region.
And fear not; it will be possible to dance!
age limit. 18 years
Festivalpub
vertshuset, 11:00 PM - 2:00 AM(?)
Free entry
Bring your fiddle, guitar, washboard or whatever and come to the Festivalpub at Vershuset!
Foto: Julia Jonette Fjellheim
saturday
Workshops
11:00-13:00
There is something to learn here for most people! Curious about how to dance to gammelpols? Get an insight into other folkmusic- traditions? Then you have to sign up for a course!
Dance pols with Bergitte Kjosvatn and Tron Westberg
Bergitte Kjosvatn is a skilled dancer and communicator of folk dance. Tron Westberg is one of the country's best folk music performers on the fiddle, and also a very skilled dancer.
Together they have worked on the Folkrekrutt project in Røros, which has ensured good recruitment of young people for folk dancing.
Learn Irish songs . Some of the Irish musicians from Northern nights will teach you some of their favourite tunes. The course is open to all instruments.
Learn to make and play a willow flute
Instrument maker and musician Bendik Smedåsgjelten Qvam will teach you how to easily make and play a willow flute from a plastic tube.
Foto: Julia Jonette Fjellheim
Foto: Synnøve Brøndbo Plassen
Småfolk: Taktlaus
Gubben og Gamla
Røros bibliotek, 11:00-12:00
Free admission
"gubben og gamla" is a playful performance based on the old story of the same name, and now we finally get to know who these characters really are and why this story came into being!
The audience must join in and find the solution to the problem that the two characters have gotten themselves into. Literally - because Gubben og Gamla is about mess, a specific mess, and how two messed-up people need help to clean up the mess, and find the mess that is the root of all mess in the world.
The performance is best suited for ages 4 and up.
Cast:
Signe Dorthea Krohn Gjessing
Lisa Luni Thun
Pols, pils og pøsje
vertshuset 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Buffet opens at 1:45 PM)
Welcome to a culinary and musical session that addresses the three sacred P's; Pols. Pils. Pøsje.
Here you will get a tasty sausage buffet with local ingredients, drinks from Røros Bryggeri, sprinkled with driving pols garnish from some of the festival's musicians!
The buffet opens at 1:45 p.m.
NOTE! Limited tickets. be sure to secure your spot!
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Festival passes do not provide admission to this event.
Foto: Guro Sommer
Hekate
Sangerhuset, 4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Hekate is a vocal trio consisting of Malin Alander, Silje Risdal Liahagen and Synnøve Brøndbo Plassen, three singers who have all distinguished themselves as solo artists on the Norwegian music scene.
Now they have joined forces to take traditional dance music on a new course with uncompromising folksinging in a club setting.
Using folkmusic from all over the country as a starting point, they take folk music in new directions through improvisation, powerful sounds and fierce stomping. The goal is that the audience has no chance to sit still when they get going.
Drinking song-vorspiel
with Synnøve Brøndbo Plassen
Vertshuset, 7:00 p.m.
Free entry
Is there any better way to warm up for the evening than with a real drinking song session with one of the country's most talented folk singers? i dont think so!
Foto: Agneta Brun
Foto: Julia Jonette Fjellheim
Hoven droven
support: Måssåpolslaget
SAngerhuset, 2030 - 22.00
One of the Nordic countries' biggest folk rock legends is coming to Røros once again! Hoven Droven last visited the festival in 2022, and will be back to rock the Sangerhuset once again. This will be an evening you don't want to miss!
Måssåpolslaget
To warm up, a legendary group of musicians will be there. With Tron Steffen Westberg in the front, he brings with him some of the region's most enthusiastic performers of Rørospols!
Come get the moss dug out of your ears, and swing yourself both with and against the sun!
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age limit: 18 years
Festivalpub
vertshuset, 11:00 PM - 2:00 AM(?)
Free entry
Bring your fiddle, guitar, washboard or whatever and come to the Festivalpub at verthuset
Foto: Julia Jonette Fjellheim
sunday
Foto: Morten Gravdal
Folk music fair in Bergstaden ziir
Røros Church, 11.00
Free entry
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Welcome to the folk music fair in røros church. Organist Alf Hulbækmo brings Synnøve Brøndbo Plassen and Ingvild Yrke Hulbækmo to end the festival in the røros church magnificent surroundings.