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Practice spel till dans

By lydia | Published: February 6, 2013

Since several of us have been wanting to get more practice at playing for dancing, and our dancers are ever-obliging, a couple of folks organized a dance evening where anyone who wanted to play could sign up for a 15-minute slot. Andrea and I signed up, since of course we are scouting for opportunities to […]

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Peter comes to visit

By lydia | Published: February 3, 2013

My cousin came up from Stockholm to see me in my current habitat, and we had a lovely afternoon together. We went for a long walk in the beautiful sunlight, we toured the school and played ping-pong for a while, we had fika, we talked about lots of stuff. It was neat to have a […]

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Vinterstämman

By lydia | Published: February 3, 2013

ESI is the current host of the annual midwinter spelmansstämma for Tierps kommun, so we had a houseful of (mostly) nyckelharpa players again. Fun sessions, yaay! There was a signup list to play for dancing in the evening, so Andrea and I signed up. The paper did note that all the time slots were after […]

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In memoriam

By lydia | Published: February 2, 2013

Since I’ve been here, we’ve lost some amazing musicians and wonderful people from both sides of the Atlantic. From the nyckelharpa world, Hasse Gille (d. 12/31/12) Nyckelharpa builder and extraordinary musician. He had been in the hospital for much of the time since his visit to our class as guest teacher in September, and in […]

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Field trip to Wik

By lydia | Published: January 28, 2013

A mere hour’s drive south of us, there’s another one-year music course at the Wiks folkhögskola. Theirs is more of a world-music program, with plenty of percussionists and nary a nyckelharpa in sight. But every year our two classes get a day-long opportunity to meet up and work together in small groups and see what […]

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Prova på Tobo & återträffen

By lydia | Published: January 27, 2013

It’s a brilliant plan: the annual “come and try out the courses at Tobo” and the reunion for all previous ESI students happen on the same day, so the potential new students get an entire houseful of enthusiastic graduates. We were invited to join in the two-hour morning class session (one hour each with Sonia […]

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