Finnish fiddling folksters Frigg have taken it upon themselves to show the world that musically, there’s more than just doom and gloom coming out of Scandinavia.

“Most of the people of the world, if they know anything about Finland, it’s quite about the melancholy — or the hard drinking,” said the group’s founding fiddler Antti Jarvela. “We just don’t want to go that direction, we aren’t like that.”

The band, making it a mission to spread positive vibes across the globe, will make a stop at Lawrence University’s Warch Campus Center as part of the school’s World Music Concert Series Monday. The Appleton stop is part of Frigg’s 11-date fall tour, filled mostly with dates in the Midwest.

Frigg, whose live performance involves numerous fiddlers, a double bass, viola, mandolin, cittern and bagpipes, have been at it in one form or another for 15 years. They’ve had opportunities to take their music to “almost every corner of the world,” as Jarvela puts it, and is just grateful they can keep unloading good times to all willing hosts.

He and his merry band of string-benders have chosen to ignore the more recent, darker musical trends of their homeland, and instead dig deep into their Nordic roots.

“Lots of Finnish traditional music — it’s very often thought that it’s melancholic and very minor, very dark, in a way — the thing is that if you go to the archives, most of the stuff you find are in major keys. It’s happy music.”

It is undeniable happiness that Frigg hopes to deliver with each live performance, and the stateside crowds, Jarvela said, are often the most willing to let loose.

“I think the (American) audience is really honest. They don’t hesitate to show their excitement even in the first bit of the concert.”

Appleton may be a long way from their home base of Kaustinen, Finland — population 5,000, hundreds of which are fiddle players — but Frigg are no strangers to touring. They’ve gigged everywhere from Minneapolis (where they swung by “A Prairie Home Companion”) to Malaysia, and next year plan to elicit hip-swiveling in both Japan and Australia.

“We just try to have a really good time together. With our band, we haven’t had any big arguments for years. We just have good energy and good synergy,” he said. “We have the same kind of understanding about what our goals are, not just doing it as a profession, but having a social goal also.”

The seven-piece outfit is most influenced by Nordic tradition, but with years of international touring behind them, other regional flavors are always seeping into their tunes.

“We have Irish influences. I think it’s more obvious we have a bluegrassy groove every now and then and when it comes the sound is really forward-going, and really, we have a lot of fast tunes and we play them sometimes in a really bluegrassy way,” Jarvela said.

Instrumental music doesn’t heed to cultural barriers because, after all, a dance-inducing jam knows no language.

“Everyone can recognize something they can see that has good vibes,” he said. “We just want people to understand that they can connect with any people in the world because music is one of the things they share with all the people in the world.”