Frigg Finland
Nordic folk music -- the next generation.
Combining elements of their respective folk
traditions with touches of American Appalachian and Country music, they
create an entirely new sound which feels simultaneously innovative and familiar.
Acoustic Nordic folk music is advanced by the next generation through Frigg, a new group rich with folk heritage from Finland and Norway. Combining elementsof their respective folk traditions with touches of American Appalachian and country & western music, they create an entirely new sound which feels simultaneously innovative and familiar.
The seven-piece band contains three young Järveläs, two sons and a daughter of the most famous fiddle family in Finland, whose fathers and uncles founded JPP, and two Larsen brothers, members of a comparable Norwegian Hardanger fiddle clan. The traditional sounds are then supercharged with innovative arrangements, and combined with mandola, cittern, double bass, guitar and dobro.
This young band has been dazzling festival audiences in Scandinavia the US, creating a phenomenal buzz among listeners and fellow musicians in the process.
- “...a stunning album. ...lovingly crafted together with a wicked twinkle in the eye. Not to mention space for everyone on the dance floor.” — Fiona Talkington, Songlines (Top of the World selection for February 2006)
Touring North America
Sept/Oct 2008
print-quality photos
audio
- Ril from the album Frigg
links
tech
- concert rider
including stage plot and input list
Acrobat Reader required - workshop descriptions