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Björnlert Hedin Pekkari
Pelle Björnlert, Johan Hedin & Erik Pekkari are three national fiddlers who mainly plays folk music from southeast Sweden. They are well-known for playing the special kind of swedish dance, “polska”, which was the highest fashion in the 1700s.
Pelles melody playing on the fiddle, a sensitive accompaniment of Johans tenor nyckelharpa, an instrument with a sound like the baroque instrument viola da gamba. Eriks very personal zither accompaniment gives a special groove and support to the music. Another part of the trio repertoire is “gammaldans” – warious dances from the 1900th century. In this context, Eriks two-row accordion plays a central role.
Pelle Björnlert
Pelle Björnlert, from Vråka in the county of Småland, prefer to play music that has its roots in the folk tradition of his home region. In the early 70s, he became inspired by the Småland master fiddler Bengt Löfberg to search for the forgotten old repertoire.
Pelle has a major focus on the original function of the tunes as dance music, and has for a long time developed his playing in close communication with the dancers. Early he created a name as a personal fiddleplayer with a contagious dance rhythm and has long been an idol for many fiddlers in Sweden.
Johan Hedin
Johan Hedin is one of of the foremost nyckeharpa players in Sweden. As a child he started to learn in a traditional way through senior masters. Later he continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm. Besides giving his attention to his own tradition Johan often plays in groups where people of different musical backgrounds meet and inspire each other, as for example in the worldmusicgroup Bazar Blå, or in collaboration with the concert organist Gunnar Idenstam. During many years Johan has also been working with the multi-instrumentalist Ale Möller. Johans way of playing has been shaped hand in hand with a strong interest in the development of nyckelharpa instruments. In this trio, he uses his own invention, the teonor nyckelharpa.
Erik Pekkari
Erik Pekkari is mainly known as two-row accordion player. His playing style is colored in the 80s of fiddlers as Pelle Björnlert and Bengt Löfberg. During this time he also began to accompaniment the tunes on the zither. He has developed a style of playing wich is quite unique. – minor, major, open chords, shifting bass, picked bass lines, maximum harmonic exploitation... He has stretched the limits of what is possible on this instrument.
article posted by:Susanne Ahlander, AM Agentur