A World Record at the 2015 Nordic Fest

Participants practice for the World's Largest Schottische hosted by the Foot-Notes at the 49th Nordic Fest in 2015.
Photo courtesy of Perry Straw. Used with permission.

Nordic Fest is full of 50 years of beautiful history. 

In 2015, the Foot-Notes celebrated their 25th anniversary and received the Nordic Fest flag in recognition of their many contributions to the event. Their Scandinavian and Scandinavian-American Old Time Dance Music highlights many a Nordic Fest.

The celebration continued when the Foot-Notes and Vesterheim Norwegian American Museum announced plans to attempt the World's Largest Schottische on Saturday, July 25 during their traditional Nordic Fest street dance. 

The Foot-Notes composed an original tune for this special celebration that is still available on CD Baby here. 

Event-Brite registrations poured in. Volunteers gathered onsite registrations. Counting, counting and more counting took place. In the end, the Foot-Notes and their Nordic Fest guests broke the record for the World's Largest Schottische on Saturday, July 25, with 1,881 dancers joining the event!

Bailey Mulholland produced a video overview of this special moment in Nordic Fest history that may be viewed here.