In this week’s online class for kids we introduce music from Western Europe and the Nordic Countries, which is vast, voluminous, and very very cool. While we allude to the many Western European genres, from mesmerizing Spanish flamenco to mystifying Finnish Sámi voik, from bounding German oom-pah to passionate Portuguese fado, from Basque trikitrixa to the multi-facted Ottoman-influenced sound of Greece, we actually step it up — and leap, jump and hop too — to try an Irish jig.
