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Looking forward to Umefolk

By lydia | Published: January 23, 2013

First we found out that two of our classmates, Jonathan & Einar, play in the band that won last year’s competition at the Linköping festival. Then we found out that their band will be playing at Umefolk, the festival in Umeå in February. And we listened to some of the tunes they’ve written/arranged together, and […]

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Zorn meeting

By lydia | Published: January 20, 2013

Since this summer’s uppspelning will be in Tobo, the planning committee and the jury were here for a weekend-long meeting. On Saturday night they jammed for a while in the dining room, and since one of them was borrowing Andrea’s fiddle, we asked if we could go and listen. We had a fun couple hours […]

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Halling performance

By lydia | Published: January 18, 2013

Here is a video showing David’s and my halling performance from the ESI Julkonsert. Thanks, Ingrid!

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Tensta spelmanslag och folkdanslag

By lydia | Published: January 18, 2013

So far this has been the most fun concert of the Tobotorsdag series. Tensta is close enough to here that a number of the faces were already familiar from festivals/jams around Uppland. They’re an energetic bunch, and they clearly enjoy playing together. The program was fairly well polished and wide ranging, beginning with a couple […]

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Trettondedag jul

By lydia | Published: January 6, 2013

Here we celebrate the Thirteenth Day of Christmas (Epiphany) instead of Twelfth Night, and there is of course a rich and richly documented set of folk traditions. We’d learned about some of these in our class about Jul traditions with Gunnar Ahlbäck, but I didn’t know I would be getting to see a real-live version. […]

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Vinterton in Sundsvall

By lydia | Published: January 6, 2013

For the last long-weekend of my Xmas break, I took the train up to Sundsvall to join in a short 3-day music camp for “youth” (and whoever-all else wants to come). Thanks to Amy Parker for the idea, and for introducing me to a veritable flock of friendly folk musician friends. It was quite entertaining […]

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