Kari has enjoyed everything Norwegian since childhood. She started dancing and learning Norwegian at Skogfjorden (the Concordia Norwegian Language Village) and has since studied dance and language in both Norway and the US. Sharing her love of dance and languages with young people by teaching is a joy for her. Since 1985 she has danced and performed with the Dannebrog Dancers. Her costume is from the region where her maternal ancestors came from: Hardanger, Norway.

Adi and Christina have been dancing together since 1970. They regularly attend dance workshops to explore new dances and to refine technique. They have performed folk dances from England, Ireland, France, Israel, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Russia, and the Balkan countries with the MIT Folkdance Group in Massachusetts, the Tucson Ethnic Folk Ensemble in Arizona, and the Greensboro Folk Dancers in North Carolina. Since moving to the Twin Cities they have concentrated on couple and set dances from the Scandinavian countries. They currently also perform with the Kisarit Finnish American Folk Dancers.

Bruce began folk dancing in 1992 after receiving a private lesson for his 40th birthday. He has performed with all of the Nordic groups in the region including the Dannebrog Dancers (Danish), Det Norske Folkedanslaget (Norwegian), the Twin Cities Swedish Folk Dancers, and the Kisarit Finnish American Folk Dancers. He has studied Swedish and Norwegian folk dance at festivals and workshops in the U.S. and Sweden. In 2007 he was hired as a Norwegian dance consultant for the production of Peer Gynt at the Guthrie Theater. Bruce is a member of two performing groups in which he also plays the munneharpa, Ole Olsson’s Oldtime Orkestra and Norse Folk.

Carol first learned Norwegian folk dance from her father, a life-long folk dancer who emigrated from Telemark, Norway to Minneapolis in 1924. Carol grew up in an environment where Hardanger fiddle music and Telespringar were a normal part of her family's social activities. Carol traveled to Norway to attend the International Summer School in Oslo and then spent a year studying folk music and dance while attending a Folk High School in Telemark. Here she heard her first "kveding," or folk songs sung in traditional style (unaccompanied), and learned her first tunes while living in the mountains. Carol is also the leader of Det Norske Folkedanslaget.

Daniel and Gaelyn fell for Norwegian folk dance (and each other) when they ended up as partners in a Scandinavian performing dance group in college. After a Norwegian-styled wedding, they kept on dancing—first with a Danish group in Junction City, Oregon, and then in Norway itself, where they lived for a year focusing on the dance, music, and costume-making traditions of the Sunnfjord, Telemark, and Valdres regions. They have performed with the Kisarit Finnish American Folk Dancers for more than 20 years, and have taught Norwegian and Finnish dance at workshops around the country. Daniel has a Master's Degree in Dance and authored the book Dances from Norway.

Elise is an active leader and participant in the Scandinavian community in both her professional and personal life. Dancing and playing music are outlets for her creative side; and while she enjoys a variety of dance and music styles, she is most passionate about Swedish folk dance and nyckelharpa music. Elise leads the Twin Cities Swedish Folk Dancers, and plays with the Twin Cities Nyckelharpalag. She claims not only the Twin Cities, but also Chicago and Sweden as home.

Philip has always enjoyed dancing. In 2006 he traveled to Norway with his family to meet relatives and explore his heritage. When he got back he joined Fjell og Fjord (a local Norwegian youth dance group lead by Carol Sersland). This influenced his appreciation and enjoyment of Scandinavian dances. On top of dancing he does viking live steel combat reenactment, and recently he started learning how to build a violin with the ultimate goal of building a hardingfele. He also dances with Det Norske Folkedanslaget and the St. Paul Czech & Slovak dance group.

Char began playing Scandinavian fiddle music during her midlife crisis some time (not so very long) ago. She is a member of Ole Olsson's Oldtime Orkestra, playing both traditional folk music and immigrant tunes. She also plays solo fiddle for Swedish and Norwegian turning dance workshops and dances, and is co-host of the long-standing Scandinavian social dances in the Twin Cities. In April, 2007, Char received an Award of Merit from the Swedish Council of America in recognition of outstanding contributions, and as an expression of gratitude for the many years of promoting and preserving the Swedish heritage.

Becky plays the violin, nyckelharpa, and hardingfele. Her father taught her many traditional tunes when she was very young, and she grew up doing many of the dances that she now accompanies. In 1981, she learned to play the nyckelharpa while studying in Sweden. Three years later, she began learning the hardingfele. Since that time, she has been fortunate to study this music on both sides of the Atlantic. Here in the U.S., she has attended camps and workshops with visiting master musicians. Becky has also taken an academic interest in the subject, writing an M.A. thesis on hardingfele, and a dissertation on nyckelharpa.

Jim plays guitar and string bass, if necessary. At home he mostly plays fiddle. He started out performing old-time stringband music for Saturday night square dances at rural town halls. Later he found himself dancing to and playing Cajun music in the Seattle area. From that point on he realized the most fun audience to play for danced. After moving to Minneapolis, he discovered that there was more to Swedish music than the family reunion hambos, and has played backup for various local Scandinavian groups since. Jim has played with the ASI Spelmanslag and Twin Cities Nyckelharpalag. Most recently, he played guitar for the Yard Buzzards, the Wild Goose Chase Cloggers' old-time stringband.