Ale Möller
MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST, FOLK/WORLD MUSIC PIONEER, and eight time Swedish Grammy winner Ale Möller (born in 1955) is constantly exploring.
Firmly anchored in traditional music, Möller has been a guiding light, expanding the borders of Scandinavian folk music in groups and/or projects such as Filarfolket, Nordan, Frifot, Stockholm Folk Music Big Band, Ale Möller Band, and Ale Möller Trio.
XENOMANIA
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC WITH INFLUENCES FROM THE WHOLE WORLD!
The band is a true “all star band” where every one of the nine members is a major name in their own right. This outfit plays the music of Ale Möller, and we get to hear his fascination with the rhythmic powers of these melodies. Therein lies what’s significant about Ale Möller’s great artistry. Ale’s music is never mainstream and he manages to combine the traditional with a new view of the musical content.
Ale Möller Band
The members of Ale Möller Band have different musical backgrounds. Together, they create world music, not necessarily rooted in each individual member’s background, but rather in the strength of their musicianship.
Frigg
Frigg has gained recognition worldwide and, over the past 20 years, has conquered the folk and world music scene. The band is a constellation of Finland’s foremost and best folk musicians of this generation, combining their deep Nordic roots with Western folk music and Bluegrass. The result is Frigg’s unique and exceptional sound, playfully dubbed “Nordgrass.”
Kolonien
TEN YEARS ON THE FOREFRONT OF THE SWEDISH FOLK MUSIC SCENE!
Kolonien is a four piece family band from Sweden, reinventing their roots with rich vocal harmonies, fierce melodies and rhythms.
Lena Jonsson
Swedish award winning fiddler Lena Jonsson is one of the most sought after musicians in the folk scene right now. Her ability to balance a deep knowledge of traditional Swedish folk music with innovative artistic sensibilities, sparkling joy of life and charisma of a rockstar have made her one of Sweden’s most visionary artists. She has created a unique style inspired by traditional Swedish music as well as rock, pop and the American old-time and bluegrass traditions.
Lena Willemark
LENA WILLEMARK – Deep tradition and innovation
Lena Willemark has a unique ability to grab the listener – whether she is in front of a symphony orchestra, an jazz improv trio, a glass harp artist, a rock band, or if she is performing all by herself.
Lisa Miskovsky
LISA MISKOVSKY IS ONE OF SWEDEN’S PREMIERE ARTISTS AND SONGWRITERS. She has sold in excess of 200,000 albums, won two Swedish Grammy awards, five Rockbjörnen awards (by the country’s leading newspaper Aftonbladet) and participated in Melodifestivalen, the Swedish branch of the Eurovision Song Contest.
Långbacka/Bådagård
Långbacka/Bådagård are Swedish singers and multi-instrumentalists Maja Långbacka and Matilda Bådagård. Together they create music that they describe as ”pop with a folk soul”.
Northern Resonance
Northern Resonance is the Scandinavian string trio that takes newly composed folk music into enormous soundscapes. With their previously untested combination of instruments: viola d’amore, hardanger fiddle and nyckelharpa they allow Scandinavian music to meet explosive rhythms and grand chamber-like arrangements, taking folk music in a new direction.
Sara Ajnnak
Sara Ajnnak’s biggest break so far came with the critically acclaimed album Gulldalit – Can You Hear Me, which was released in the fall of 2018. The album was nominated for a Swedish Grammy award in the folk music category and won album of the year in the ”World Traditional” category of the Independent Music Awards in New York.
Sousou & Maher Cissoko
Multiple award-winning Senegalese/Swedish duo, crossing borders in their music just like in their life together – constantly on the move, with musical and human meetings as their principal driving force. Maher was born to play kora and Sousou is one of very few female kora players in the world.