Author Archives: lydia

Eva Karlsson and Jonas Bleckman played a super-amazingly-awesome dance evening at Stallet. If you are not already a fan of fiddle-and-cello duos (though isn’t everyone?), stay tuned for their hopefully-forthcoming CD. (More movie snippets: see also this excerpt of a familiar Finnskogspols, which I’m sure one of you kind folks will identify for me since […]

I spent the week in Stockholm, and pretty much in Swedish. It was a fun week, and I was especially pleased about the “in Swedish” part. I stayed with Alice K, a friend from home who is in the country for about 3 months and was staying at the home of a cousin in the […]

What better way to celebrate the beginning of fall break than with a festival? Most of us spent Saturday in Uppsala at the Oktoberstämman with concerts, dances, workshops, and jamming. Headliners for this year included Björn Ståbi and Bengan Jansson, Pers-Hans Olsson and his son Alexander, Torbjörn and Pär Näsbom, and an arm-long list of […]

It is official, and very exciting: I am definitely buying the beautiful amazing new 5-string violin that Per Klinga built for me. It has his distinctive baroque-styled fingerboard and tailpiece, and a one-piece maple back that looks like a sunburst. The body is 5mm longer than a standard violin; I think also the bouts are […]

After all our hard work on the concert, we feel like we’ve definitely earned our fall break. We’re off duty for a whole week as of lunchtime Friday. Andrea and I went for a nice afternoon walk with our friend Matthias, a fiddler who was in this course last year and whom we met in […]