Author Archives: lydia

Our first student concert was a smashing success. I was really impressed by how well everything pulled together: complicated arrangements with the entire group, small ensembles, instrument changes, introductions, medleys with songs,… all of it with everyone working together, having fun and seeming, by and large, pretty calm. Everyone had some responsibilities for leading a […]

The day after we got home from Linköping, we had visitors. ESI was a stop for the 2012 tour of Ethno on the road, a group of 5 young musicians selected from the Ethno summer music camp, plus 2 program leaders who collaborated with them to create the touring show. (Ethno is “the world’s largest […]

There are videos from our set! Two of our three tunes. The recording quality (both audio & video) is a bit squinty, and evidently the button-pusher had to do something else first at the beginning of each tune, but if you use your imagination you can pretty much get the idea. D-moll schottis av Konsta […]

I realize I have been remiss in not identifying our cast of characters, but I was thinking I would pull together something super-informative and organized and ask everyone’s permission to post photos and stuff. Wouldn’t that be cool? But meanwhile, here is a simple list. The spelkurs has 11 students: nyckelharpa and fiddle — me, […]

Most of our class went to Linköping for a grand weekend of music festival excesses. I am pleased to report that the Tobo spelmanslag (9 of our 11 course members) played really well! We’ve been rehearsing hard for about three weeks (including most evenings for the last couple of weeks), selecting three tunes we’ve learned […]