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Folk Live

Morten Alfred Høirup

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Frequency: 1 episode/24d. Total Eps: 42

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

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Folk Live - Trio Mio 2024

Tuesday, October 15, 2024 • Duration 35:43

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

This concert was recorded and mixed by Peter Hellesøe. Thank you for listening!

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Folk Live - The Mukherjee Development 2024

Tuesday, October 15, 2024 • Duration 37:44

Welcome to RadioFolk.dk’s podcast, Folk Live. In this edition of the podcast, we will be featuring Danish The Mukherjee Development in a concert recorded at the famous Danish Tønder Festival that runs the last weekend of August every year.

Danish/American/Indian frontman Oscar Mukherjee grew up in California, before moving to Denmark in his teens. The Mukherjee Development embraces his three different cultural backgrounds, with songs about devotion and identity in multi-cultural 21st century.

The band was formed at the height of of the pandemic in 2020, and is now touring Denmark and Sweden all year round. The Mukherjee Development is:

Oscar Mukherjee on vocal and guitar, Jacob Holm on guitar, Søren Bigum on guitar, steel guitars and keyboards, Henrik Poulsen on bass, and Søren Poulsen on drums.

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.themukherjeedevelopment.com

This concert was recorded and mixed by Peter Hellesøe. Thank you for listening!

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Folk Live - Twang 2024

Tuesday, October 15, 2024 • Duration 42:18

Welcome to RadioFolk.dk’s podcast, Folk Live. In this edition of the podcast, we will be featuring the Danish trio Twang, in a concert recorded at the famous Danish Tønder Festival that runs the last weekend of August every year.

Twang sings a mix of covers, traditional stuff and songs that they write them self, often together. The band is Spencer Gross on guitar, double bass and vocals, Thyge van Dassen on violin and vocals, and Peter Banks Johns on banjo, double bas and vocals.

The trio which is Danish but has roots in the US, has four albums out, the latest called ‘Propaganda’, and on their website you can read the following statement:

’Twang is like a three-legged stool, where each musician is one of the legs. Only with all three legs is Twang Twang. Each member pulls in their own direction, but together, they ensure a unique musical balance. Twang never loses control as a united band, keeping each other grounded and making each other soar’

Nov, It’s concert time and the band starts out with Buffalo Radio ….

Folk Live was 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.twang.dk

This concert was recorded and mixed by Peter Hellesøe. Thank you for listening! + Kending

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Folk Live - Svøbsk 2024

Tuesday, October 15, 2024 • Duration 37:57

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

This concert was recorded and mixed by Peter Hellesøe, Thank you for listening! Kending

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Folk Live - Som Os 2024

Tuesday, October 15, 2024 • Duration 31:43

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

This concert was recorded and mixed by Peter Hellesøe, and my name is Morten Alfred Høirup. Thank you for listening! + Kending

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Folk Live - Simone Tang 2024

Monday, October 14, 2024 • Duration 32:51

Welcome to RadioFolk.dk’s podcast, Folk Live. In this edition of the podcast, we will be featuring the Danish singer, songwriter and producer, Simone Tang, in a concert recorded at the famous Danish Tønder Festival that runs the last weekend of August every year.

Simone Tang is writing about forbidden love, perfectionism, community and sibling relationships, and she is working with an acoustic sound, stripped down to guitar and vocals. In this concert she is being assisted by her good friend, the producer, singer and guitar player, Søren Mancher.

So now it is time for us to listen to Simone Tang, and she is starting out with her own song, Hey Little Love. Simone told me that this is song about feeling a sadness about not being able to return somebody’s love for you, and to be sufficient in that relationship. And about a desire to spare the other person for pain.

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 https://www.facebook.com/SimoneTangOfficial/

This concert was recorded and mixed by Peter Hellesøe, thank you for listening

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Folk Live - Maja Kjær si Orkester 2024

Monday, October 14, 2024 • Duration 36:40

Welcome to RadioFolk.dk’s podcast, Folk Live, my name is Morten Alfred Høirup and in this edition of the podcast, we will be featuring the band Maja Kjær si Orkester in a concert recorded at the famous Danish Tønder Festival that runs the last weekend of August every year.

Maja Kjær is a Danish fiddler and composer who has been touring Europe, Australia, the USA and Canada, amongst others, solo, and in different musical constellations, playing traditional as well as new music.

She is an enterprising musician with a great desire to create new music, and new concert formats.

Maja Kjær si Orkester - meaning ‘Maja Kjær’s Orchestra’, in a dialect from Jutland in Denmark - is a new band consisting of the following musicians:

Maja Kjær Jacobsen and Signe Kierkegaard Schmidt on fiddles, George Mihalache on cymbalom, Jacob Hee Lund on percussion and Rasmus Svale on Tuba.

The band just released their debut album, named ‘Landing’, containing tunes that Maja did compose during the last 18 years. But now it is time for us to join Maja Kjær si Orkester’s concert, and the first tune is called Nordmanden.

You will find much more info at www.majakjaersiorkester.dk/

This concert was recorded and mixed by Peter Hellesøe, and my name is Morten Alfred Høirup. Thank you for listening!

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Folk Live - Sylfide 2024

Thursday, April 18, 2024 • Duration 31:59

Welcome to RadioFolk.dk’s podcast Folk Live. In this edition of the podcast we will be featuring the band Sylfide, recorded at the famous Danish Tønder Festival that runs the last weekend of August every year.

The songs of the young singer, songwriter and harp player, Helene Tungelund, might be rooted in Danish and Nordic traditions, but they are also very much relating to the world that we are living in right now. The singer herself put it this way:

“For me working with folk music and cultural heritage is an attempt to understand myself and the world that has shaped me, for better or for worse.”

The songs that Helene Tungelund writes, are dealing with topics like climate change, feminism, and mental health. The band consists of young musicians already known on the Danish music scene:

Jonathan Fjord Bredholt plays the piano and the synthesizer, Emil Ringtved Nielsen plays electric bass guitar and stomp, Jonas Lærke Clausen plays the violin, and Helene Tungelund masters the harp and the vocals.

Sylfide was awarded a Danish Music Award, the Danish ‘Grammy’, as ‘new Roots Name of the year’, and another one as ‘Roots Track of the Year’ in 2022.

This podcast is being brought to you by RadioFolk.dk, Folk Spot Denmark and Tønder Festival, supported by Spot Festival, and the Danish Arts Council. Recorded and mixed by Peter Hellesøe, and hosted by Morten Alfred Høirup. Much more info at: www.sylfide.com

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Folk Live - HØST 2024

Friday, March 8, 2024 • Duration 29:00

Welcome to RadioFolk.dk’s podcast Folk Live. In this edition of the podcast, we will be featuring the vocal quartet HØST recorded at the famous Danish Tønder Festival that runs the last weekend of August every year.

The four women in the award winning vocal quartet HØST, got together with a shared vision of creating a vocal playground. Using nothing but their voices they interpret and challenge the traditions of Nordic folk music as well as modern polyphonic singing.

In 2023 they published their first album, Fuglesang (Bird Song) as a tribute to nature and the power of the human voice.

HØST is a new vocal response to the Danish folk music scene, but the four members of the quartet are already well known as singers as well as instrumentalists from quite a few folk and folk related bands. The members of HØST are:

Liv Vester

Maja Freese

Filippa Westerberg

Lene Høst

HØST starts out with the song Ravnen - The Raven - written by Lene Høst, which family name HØST meaning Harvest has given the quartet its name.

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Folk Live - Folkens 2024

Thursday, January 18, 2024 • Duration 29:00

Welcome to RadioFolk.dk’s podcast Folk Live. In this edition of the podcast, we will be featuring the quartet Folkens recorded at the famous Danish Tønder Festival that runs the last weekend of August every year.

Folkens is an ensemble of four, featuring two musicians and two dancers. They are all passionated about showing and promoting dance and music in a melting pot of both new and old material.

It all come alive and present when Folkens shine with a mix of close duo playing and swirling couple dancing.

Well, you may or you may not be able to hear Kirstine Nurdug Jensen and Christian Thorvaldsen feet on the floor, but you might feel their present on stage, in this recording.

And you will definitely be able to hear Kristine Heebøll playing the violin and Jesper Vinther playing the accordion.

The two of them has been playing together for many years, and in this band they perform a blend of traditional Danish dance music and their own material.

The concert was recorded by Peter Hellesøe and mixed by Jesper Vinther. Hosted in English by Morten Alfred Høirup

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