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From 16th century tune to a polska

December 15, 2009

The group of Swedish folk artists who brought us the lovely album, Jul i Folkton (Christmas in Folk Sounds), are at it again. They have created a new live show, which is currently touring Sweden and will result in a live album to be released soon. This video is of a performance of one piece from [...]

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Getting all Norse-ken on us

August 19, 2009

I've written about the Finnish-Norwegian group, Frigg, before. The Järvelä and Larsen sibling combination produces some great "powerfolk", as they call it. Their website sums it up nicely: Hot Fiddles From Cool Scandinavia Here's a recent video of Frigg playing at the 2009 Shetland Folk Festival — a festival that will celebrate its 30th anniversary [...]

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A new Spindel on a tune…

July 13, 2009

Spindel is a band fronted by two wonderful female Hardanger fiddle players from Nordfjord: Liv Merete Kroken and Sigrid Moldestad. Here they are with a tune called — in Swedish — "Du och jag Alfred (You and I, Alfred)". This non-professional video was recorded at Halkaer Festival in Denmark in June 2009 . Listen at [...]

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Storis & Limpan Band + Dan Berglund: Brottet

April 21, 2009

Just yesterday, a neat video appeared of the Storis & Limpan Band, joined by Dan Berglund on double bass. They were playing a concert at Cafe Rosenberg in Reykjavik, Iceland, and this is world music version of a polska and the tune is called Brottet. The musicians are: Magnus "Storis" Holmström – nyckelharpa (also a member [...]

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Frigg-in' awesome powerfolk music

October 8, 2008

I've been a fan of the pan-Nordic group, Frigg, since their first album. Who am I kidding? I'd probably be a fan of almost anything the Järvelä or Larsen siblings do! And I really like the way they describe themselves on their MySpace page: We're a Finnish-Norwegian group who produces fresh Scandinavian powerfolk with violins, [...]

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