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Folkmusikhistoria

By lydia | Published: October 8, 2012

Last week Magnus Gustafsson came in as our guest teacher for two days. We spent the first day learning about an instrument classification system created (presumably in German) by Sachs and Hornbostel, learning the Swedish names of lots of obscure folk instruments from around the world, but with emphasis on ones from the Nordic countries. […]

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Salsta slott

By lydia | Published: October 7, 2012

On Saturday I went to play with Alice again, and spent the night there. We talked a lot and played a lot and did not sleep a lot. On Sunday, Andrea and I spent a lovely fall afternoon and evening with Leif. He took us to see his local baroque castle, Salsta slott, and we […]

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Väsen meets Trio X

By lydia | Published: September 30, 2012

A bunch of us piled into a couple of cars for a trip to Söderfors, where Väsen was playing a collaborative concert with a jazz trio. They created a lot of new repertoire together for this special project, working out new arrangements and stretching each other’s boundaries. It was really interesting stuff. Each trio also […]

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Österbybruk tour

By lydia | Published: September 30, 2012

Our second spelträff with P-G started with tunes and fika, but then we added a special rainy-day driving tour of Österbybruk, featuring sites important to the Jernberg tradition. We stopped in to visit his house (and pick up a CD, and eat some freshly baked apple cake), but mostly we pointed things out through the […]

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Tobotorsdag: Silverbasorkestern

By lydia | Published: September 28, 2012

ESI runs a ~twice-monthly concert series, Tobotorsdag (Tobo Thursdays), and this week was the first of the season. Our guest artists were the Silverbasorkestern, whom I had vaguely supposed might all be playing silverbas harpa. But nope: of the six band members, only two are playing harpa — and one of those also plays a […]

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Spelträff i Grillby

By lydia | Published: September 23, 2012

On Sunday I had my first spelträff (play date) with Alice, the buttonbox player we met at the Byss-Calle stämman last month. She is, it turns out, the only woman riksspelman on durspel (two-row button accordion) today. When someone asked me recently what’s been the most fun thing that’s happened since I got to Sweden, […]

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