Four weeks of music from Sweden, Finland and Norway. Satalla, New York City’s premier world music venue, presents Nordic Voices, a series of performances by five Nordic acts from Thursday, September 22 through Sunday, October 23.
Nordic folk music is advanced by the next generation through Frigg, a new group rich with folk heritage from Finland and Norway. Combining elements of 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 and creating a phenomenal buzz among listeners and fellow musicians. The musicians that comprise Frigg include, Alina Jarvela (fiddle), Esko Jarvela (viola, fiddle, nyckelharpa, harmonium), group leader Antti Jarvela (double bass, fiddle, viola, harmonium), Gjermund Larsen (fiddle, Hardanger fiddle), Einar-Olov (fiddle, Hardanger fiddle), Petri Prauda (cittern, mandolin) and Tuomas Logren (guitar, dobro). Guest musicians include, a touted architect of the Finnish folk music revival, Timo Alakotila (grand piano), Rami Eskelinen (drums), Janne Tovikoski (percussion) and Antti Paalanen (2-row accordion). Together these musicians weave a tapestry, that is heavy on Nordic fiddle and embellished by American bluegrass twang. Other bands playing will be Garmarna, Hurdy-Gurdy, Hoven Droven and Väsen.
When: September 28 at 7:30 p.m.
Where: Satalla, 37 West 26th Street, NYC
Info: (212) 576-1155