Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
"Uti vår hage" (choir singing four verses). "Uti vår hage" ("Out in our meadow" [1] or "In our meadow" [2]) is a traditional Swedish folk song first published in Gotland [3] sometime during the 1880s by Hugo Lutteman, [4] though it is also considered to have earlier origins as far back as the 1600s.
Swedish folk music is a genre of music based largely on folkloric collection work that began in the early 19th century in Sweden. [1] The primary instrument of Swedish folk music is the fiddle . Another common instrument, unique to Swedish traditions, is the nyckelharpa .
Swedish folk songs are dominated by ballads and kulning; the latter was originally used as a cow-herding call and is traditionally sung by women. Ballad stories descend from skillingtryck printed songs from the 19th century. Modern bands like Folk och Rackare, Hedningarna and Garmarna incorporated folk songs into their repertoire.
The song describes how a mysterious fiddler came to the community near Hårgaberget or "Harga mountain", and played the fiddle. The youth danced to the tune that the fiddler played and they were unable to stop.
Väsen is a Swedish folk music band from Uppsala, founded in 1989, consisting of Olov Johansson (nyckelharpa) and Mikael Marin . Previous members include André Ferrari ( percussion ) and founding member Roger Tallroth ( guitar ), the latter of whom announced his departure from the band in 2020 to focus on new projects. [ 1 ]
[23] [24] Cherry was nominated for "Best New Artist" with Buffalo Stance at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards and the song was nominated for "International Hit of the Year" at the 1990 Ivor Novello Awards. Cherry's second single, "Manchild" (1989), peaked at No. 2 in Germany, and at No. 5 in the UK, and was a top-10 success in six more countries.
The sales of Kaksi! reached 35,000 albums, which is very high for a folk music record in Sweden. British Sasha made a remix of Hedningarna's "Kruspolska" which climbed the charts in England. The third album Trä , meaning 'wood' in Swedish (a pun , since "Trä" also sounds a lot like the Swedish word for "Three": tre) was released in September ...
The Swedish title may be roughly translated as "Oh Värmland, you beautiful" and the song praises the historical province (landskap) Värmland.The lyrics were written by the Värmlandian Anders Fryxell in his 1822 musical Vermlands-Flickan [] (The Värmlandian Girl), and then expanded by Fredrik August Dahlgren for his 1846 work Värmlänningarna [].