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Eva Tjörnebo - Jan. 15

Ulrika Gunnarsson - Jan. 29

Stina Fagertun - Jan. 22

 

Eva Tjörnebo is a doctor but has spent much of her free time for many years collecting songs, especially from the area south of Stockholm where she lives, near Nyköping.   Eva sings traditional Swedish songs with so much energy and emotion that you can't help but be drawn into the songs. She performs with the group Viskompaniet and teaches song workshops are so much fun and full of songs that you want to learn and sing over and over again. Here Eva sings a polska polska from Jämtland: https://youtu.be/NnPjv3Rp0hM Here is a link to her Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/viskompaniet/Here is a link to her web site: http://www.viskompaniet.seI

Stina Fagertun - Jan. 22

Ulrika Gunnarsson - Jan. 29

Stina Fagertun - Jan. 22

 Stina Fagertun of Tromsø, Norway, will be teaching us a couple of Sámi joiks plus a couple of songs in Norwegian that are taught to the children in arctic Norway when they celebrate the return of the sun each year in January. Stina is best known for her storytelling and has toured all over the world and won many awards for her stories. She is bursting with information about life in the arctic and her Sámi and Kven heritage and she is very generous in sharing all that she knows. 

Ulrika Gunnarsson - Jan. 29

Ulrika Gunnarsson - Jan. 29

Ulrika Gunnarsson - Jan. 29

Ulrika Gunnarsson here sings the tune Swan Polska.  Ulrika works for Musik i syd and organizes many different singing events each year, including several workshops and performances at the renowned Korrö Festivalen in July each year.


Ulrika has studied Norwegian and Irish singing extensively, and brings that knowledge to the classes she teaches. She has made several recordings and her first album is devoted entirely to tralling--the Swedish version of lilting, or singing for dancing. 

Anders Larsson

Anders Larsson

Ulrika Gunnarsson - Jan. 29

Anders Larsson is a Swedish folk singer, mandolinist and engineer living in Malmö. Having played in folk music groups such as Envisa, B.A.R.K. and Svanevit, he is a well-known profile on the Swedish folk music scene. He has previously taught in folk music education at Malung Folk High School and is now also a singing coach for preschool children.


 Anders performs both solo and with his wife, Maria Larsson. They both work for an organization in southern Sweden called Musik i syd. Anders and Maria tour regularly in the U.S. and Germany.


https://youtu.be/WpPKIFgO7xM

Cajsa Ekstav

Anders Larsson

Emma Härdelin

Cajsa Ekstav

  

Cajsa Ekstav is an accomplished nyckelharpa player, fiddler and singer. Born in Vendel in the province of Uppland, she grew up surrounded by the rich folk music tradition for which the area is known. Cajsa has performed both solo and in various groups beginning at a young age, and has toured several times throughout the U.S, Europe, and Japan, giving concerts and workshops. One of the newest groups she performs with is “Systerpolskan”, founded in 2016, initiated by Benny Andersson. Cajsa was awarded the title "riksspelman" in 1990 and is the chairman of the board of the Eric Sahlström Memorial Foundation. She has from early age collected folk songs which has been one of her big interests and has provided her much enjoyment. 


 Cajsa sings: Jag unnar dig

Emma Härdelin

Anders Larsson

Emma Härdelin

Emma Härdelin

 

Emma Härdelin belongs to the fourth generation of professional folk musicians in the Härdelin family and has studied folk singing at Malung Folk High School. 


For the past 27 years, she has made a name for herself on the folk and world music scene as a front singer in the groups Garmarna and Triakel and can also be heard in the bands Stringsisters, Bölja / Härdelin and Breda gatan.


Emma Härdelin sings the traditional Swedish tune, "Polska after Katrina Lundstedt":

https://youtu.be/f0e4ANg7XEk


Anne Charlotte Harvey

Anne Charlotte Harvey

Anne Charlotte Harvey

 

Anne Charlotte Harvey, Swedish-born, educated in Sweden and the United States, is Professor Emerita of Theater at San Diego State University. As a translator and dramaturg, she has worked extensively with Scandinavian drama, notably Ibsen and Strindberg, yet is also known for pioneering work in documenting the cultural heritage of Scandinavian immigrants in the U.S. 


Maria Misgeld

Anne Charlotte Harvey

Anne Charlotte Harvey

Maria Misgeld sings in the award winning a´capella trio Irmelin, and teaches at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm. She is also Director of the Stockholm Folkmusic Choir (Stockholms folkmusikkör) at Folkuniversitetet, Stockholm.  She specializes in singing and teaching Kulning (herding Calls) and archaic songs from the North.  

 

Tutorials for Kulning.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAdhKYgLWean3hG29-7uy2A


Website: www.mariamisgeld.se

Susanne Rosenberg

Anne Charlotte Harvey

Susanne Rosenberg


Susanne Rosenberg invented and started the project Folk Song Lab  in 2014. She has been a singer, researcher and a pedagogue since the beginning of the 1980s.



Eva Rune

Agneta Stolpe

Susanne Rosenberg


Eva Rune, folk singer, choir leader, music maker, has been active in the folk music scene in Sweden and abroad since mid 90th. Rune is collaborating with a wide range of artist from different fields. Presently singing in her own new project Stormsvalan and with a capella group Irmelin.   Photo by Maja Kristin Nylander


Eva sings Nu har vi slutat att fira julen: https://youtu.be/hDoXbfJQ0jU


Website: www.evarune.se

Sofia Sandén

Agneta Stolpe

Agneta Stolpe


Sofia Sandén studied at the Royal College of Music in the late 1900th, and is now working at RCM as a folk singing teacher. Sofia, Susanne and Eva were 3/4 of the singers in the legendary group Rosenbergs Sjua. The picture was taken during the recording session of Folk Song Lab in 2019.


 

Sofia Sandén sings Vinteren

https://youtu.be/io6lbpMudYo



Agneta Stolpe

Agneta Stolpe

Agneta Stolpe


Agneta Stolpe  was born and raised In Äppelbo, in Västerdalarna. Folk music, choir singing, pop, jazz and classical music were all encouraged while she was growing up. She is a specialist and teacher in the art of “kulning,” a traditional and haunting song style used by women girls to communicate while they worked on the Swedish summer farms, or fäbodar. Agneta works as a vocal and rhetoric coach. and works with clients to develop and improve their presentation abilities.


Agneta  sings the tune Äppelbo gånglåt.  https://youtu.be/evy4z4wdtOA 


Web site: www.agnetastolpe.se. 

Karin Kolterud

Karin Kolterud

Karin Kolterud

Karin Lindström Kolterud's Norwegian family stayed at summer farms at the beginning of the last century, and used kulning as a working tool, calling for the animals. And as a folksinger today, she keeps that tradition alive. Karin has worked for many years at the outdoor museum Skansen in Stockholm, and learned  how to make butter and cheese, as her grandmother's mother once did at the summer farm. She has performed with kulning at Skansen, and in many other contexts. Since 2011 she has givencourses in kulning and folksong., with a special emphasis on  using Kularkraft as a powerful way to wellness in mind and body.

Ulrika Bodén

Karin Kolterud

Karin Kolterud

Ulrika Bodén 

With a voice that is both ethereal and powerful, Ulrika Bodén  is regarded as one of Sweden’s most foremost folk singers. She is sought-after as a soloist and the driving force behind numerous projects in Sweden and abroad, working creatively with the Swedish musical and folk cultural heritage. Ulrika grew up on a goat farm in Helgum, Ångermanland. The traditional songs from her home area, some of which she learned from old people close to where she grew up, has a very special place in her heart.

Ranarim used to be her main band for many years, now she is singing together with Sofia Sandén in their duo Sångsystrar, and also works a lot with the trio Ahlberg, Ek & Roswall.

Happy to share her music with others, Ulrika has become a much appreciated teacher, both in traditional singing and kulning/herding calls.


Live at Umefolk with Ahlberg, Ek & Roswall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCU__C7gr3w

From her album Te berga blå (To the blue mountains)
https://open.spotify.com/track/2tZT0PYCFkWaMbXvUTetdv?si=7ab2f800cca24278

https://open.spotify.com/track/1gYqx4Ms6t9V5Uy2MBVmdj?si=4b5cf6b9c72745eb

Karin Ericsson Back

Karin Ericsson Back was born and raised in Rättvik, Dalarna. Member of Rättviks Spelmanslag when she grew up. Her main instrument is her voice and she has folk singing and kulning (Swedish herding call) as areas of expertise. Educated at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm 1998-2004, both musician and pedagogue degree. Since the mid 1990s she has toured in Scandinavia, Europe, Asia and USA. She is also a trained teacher of voice yoga.  Karin composes and arrange music for her solo acts, for the vocal trio Irmelin and in collaboration with other musicians. Karin's singing is direct, honest and full of ornaments and joy. With a great knowledge of traditional Swedish folk music, she forms melodies and sound worlds that touch the listeners.  Karin sing Det brinner en eld: https://youtu.be/kdXvuLRyGjc Website: https://karinericssonback.se

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