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Written in Folk Roots issue 166, 1997

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Sjungande Tornedalen / Laulava Tornionlaakso
Caprice 21485 (1996)

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Vall- Trall- & Lapp-Nils Låtar / Folk Tunes from Jämtland
Caprice 21489 (1996)

Two more in the fine, and excellently documented, 25-CD Musica Sveciae series: unaccompanied songs, ballads and joiks recorded mostly in 1971-3 in the largely Finnish-speaking NE Swedish region of Tornedalen, and polskas, bridal marches and waltzes from solo fiddlers and diddlers recorded in 1951 by Matts Arnberg in Jämtland, halfway up Sweden’s border with Norway, land of the famous 19thC fiddler Lapp-Nils.


© 1997 Andrew Cronshaw
 

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