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Swedish and Norwegian Traditional, and original string music featuring cello, nyckelharpa and fiddle. ------------------------- Barry Phillips - cello Barry has been musician. arranger and producer of many recordings of Celtic and American folk music on the Gourd label (Gourd.com). His recordings often explore the sometimes very fine line between "folk" and "classical" music. Some of the artists he has concertized or recorded with are fiddler Alasdair Fraser, guitarist Martin Simpson, Ravi and Anoushka Shankar and the legendary British rock group Camel. He also was musical assitant to Ravi Shankar and played at the Concert for George (Harrison) at the Royal Albert Hall. Barry received a Masters of Music degree in composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 1990. Since 1996 Barry has been a student of Ravi Shankar. ------------------------------------- Olov Johansson - nyckelharpa In 1990 Olov became history’s first world nyckelharpa champion. He has been playing nyckelharpa since he was fourteen and boasts as his teachers both Curt Tallroth, a National Master Musician and Eric Sahlström, the undisputed nyckelharpa master of our times. He has also toured India and Libya. Olov’s nyckelharpa is at the core of the Väsen (VEH-sen) sound, and he’s also a member of the Nyckelharpa Orchestra. With his first solo album Storsvarten, Olov steped out on his own, with a little help from his Väsen friends Mikael Marin (viola) and Roger Tallroth (guitar), as well as organ and piano accompaniment. -------------------------- Olof Göthlin - fiddle Olof became a skilled violin player by the age of six. The forests of his Värmland home infused both his life and his violin playing with a calm and peaceful grandeur. At age sixteen, Olof was accepted into Sundsta, the renowned performing arts high school in Karlstad, Värmland. For three years he studied classical music, jazz and Swedish folkmusic. By his second year at Sundsta, he was a member of two acclaimed groups: “Gormâ€, playing jazz-flavored Swedish folkmusic; and the jazz group “Fyffes Bananerâ€, which reached the finals of the Swedish talent hunt in 2001. Olof can also be heard on the recordings by his group, Bjärv. Check out the artist's website: http://barryandshelley.com Track List: 1. Polska frÃ¥n Glava 2. Fossegrimhallingen 3. Bisonpolska 4. Trogdorpolska 5. VallÃ¥t frÃ¥n Lima 6. Farmors brudpolska 7. Seljefløyel slÃ¥tten 8. Rondopolska 9. HuldreslÃ¥tten 10. Byss-Calle's ridmarsch 11. BellÃ¥t 12. Hurvan e. Johan Hollester 13. Fanitullen 14. Polska e. Blinda Pelle 15. Gelottes g-moll polska 16. Björndansen e. Olof Tillman 17. Bjernulf's bröllopspolska Suggested CDs:Other Genres:
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