LeRoy Larson is a musician, composer, musicologist and folklorist who documented and
collected Scandinavian American folk music in Minnesota and was founder of Banjar Records in
Minneapolis. Larson was born in Clearwater County, Minnesota and grew up playing old-time
music teaching himself banjo. He collected sound recordings of old-time musicians from
around Minnesota and Wisconsin most of which formed the basis of his dissertation in 1975
from the University of Minnesota.
