Folk Live

About Folk Live

The podcast Folk Live features Danish and Nordic roots, folk and trad music bands performing at festivals and venue, like for example the famous Danish Tønder Festival. Every year the export project Folk Spot Denmark invites international agents, media, venues and festivals to visit Tønder Festival to experience the diversity and quality of Danish and Nordic music. And this is some of the music they get to hear. More info at: https://spotfestival.dk/folkspotdenmark-en/ and at: www.tf.dk

Publisher

Morten Alfred Høirup

Category

music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Feb 2022

Latest episode

15 Oct 2024

Latest episodes

42 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   15 Oct 2024

   Folk Live - Som Os 2024

   Welcome to RadioFolk.dk’s podcast. In this edition of the podcast, we will be featuring the Danish band, Som os, in a concert recorded at the famous Danish Tønder Festival that runs the last weekend of August every year. The Danish band Som Os (Meaning ‘Like Us’) are describing them self as a Nordic Folk Fusion Band consisting of musicians from mixed musical backgrounds. The band is relatively young and they released their first album, Mosaik, in 2023. The five members of the band are: Annelene Toft Christensen on the violin, Tim Ewé Bjerre on trompet, Jakob Kragesand on double bass, Chris Falkenberg on drums and Michael Hornhaver Mortensen on guitar. They come from all over Denmark and they are rooted in different genres, genres like folk music, jazz, metal, and balkan music. So now it is time to consider making a tik-tok video of you yourself dancing around in your living room, while listening to the Danish band Som Os playing Nordic Folk Fusion at Tønder Festival 2024. And the band start out by playing violinist Annelene Toft Christensen’s tune ‘Lyden af Frihed’, The Sound of Freedom. Folk Live is being brought to you by RadioFolk.dk, Folk Spot Denmark and Tønder Festival, supported by Spot Festival and The Danish Arts Council. You will find much more info at www.somosband.dk (https://www.somosband.dk) This concert was recorded and mixed by Peter Hellesøe, and my name is Morten Alfred Høirup. Thank you for listening! + Kending

2. 

   15 Oct 2024

   Folk Live - Svøbsk 2024

   Welcome to RadioFolk.dk’s podcast, Folk Live. In this edition of the podcast, we will be featuring the duo Svøbsk in a concert recorded at the famous Danish Tønder Festival that runs the last weekend of August every year. Maren Halberg on accordion and Jørgen Dickmeiss on violin, guitar and vocals, has been performing together for more than 20 years, and they have been touring in countries like Germany, Østrig, Sweden, Norway, Island, Greenland, and India with their mix of traditional and original music. In 2023, they received a Danish Music Award (Danish 'Grammy'), as Roots Name of the Year. The band name ‘Svøbsk’ is actually the name of an old and pretty wild dance, and during this concert the band did introduce a young dancer, Asbjørn Melvin, who did some solo dancing during the first and the last tune of the concert, inspired by Scandinavian traditional dancing, but with a ‘acrobatic’ twist. So now it is time for us to listen to the Danish duo Svøbsk, and they start out with a tune called Uptown Davinde, and Davinde is the village on the Danish island of Fyn (Funen), where Jørgen Dickmeiss and Maren Hallberg lives… Folk Live is being brought to you by RadioFolk.dk, Folk Spot Denmark and Tønder Festival, supported by Spot Festival and The Danish Arts Council. You will find much more info about the duo at www.svobsk.dk (https://www.svobsk.dk) This concert was recorded and mixed by Peter Hellesøe, Thank you for listening! Kending

3. 

   15 Oct 2024

   Folk Live - Trio Mio 2024

   Welcome to RadioFolk.dk’s podcast Folk Live. In this edition of the podcast, we will be featuring the Danish-Swedish band, Trio Mio, in a concert recorded at the famous Danish Tønder Festival that runs the last weekend of August every year. Danish Kristine Heebøll on the violin, and Peter Rosendahl on piano and wurlitzer, and Swedish Jens Ulvsand on the bouzouki, guitar and vocals, are all very experienced musicians coming from different backgrounds, and brought together by a sincere joy of playing together, and a shared love for music. All three musicians contribute to the repertoire featuring new music that they compose themself, inspired by jazz, classical, folk and world music. Peter Rosendahl comes from the Danish jazz scene, and Jens Ulvsand has been working with world music in Sweden and in West Africa, and Kristine has been raised on traditional Danish music and dancing. The band has published six albums, and are working on their seventh as we speak. So now it is time for us to listen to Trio Mio, and they start out with a tune by Jens Ulvsand called Channerwick Polska… Folk Live is being brought to you by RadioFolk.dk, Folk Spot Denmark and Tønder Festival, supported by Spot Festival and The Danish Arts Council. You will find much more info at www.triomio.dk (https://www.triomio.dk) This concert was recorded and mixed by Peter Hellesøe. Thank you for listening!

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