lydia ievins and Andrea Larson will perform an energetic program of traditional Swedish music at the Mariposa Museum in Peterborough, January 29th at 4 p.m. Admission is $10 and free for Mariposa members. The Mariposa is located at 26 Main Street in Peterborough, NH.
The duo is eager to share music brought home from a rewarding year of studying together in Sweden. Music for the fiddle, 5-string fiddle, nyckelharpa, and voice, including waltzes, schottises, polskas, and more will liven up our winter’s afternoon.
lydia ievins plays 5-string fiddle and nyckelharpa for Scandinavian and English Country dancing. Her favorite thing about both genres is the opportunity to create rich harmonic lines. She has been awarded a bronze Zorn medal in Sweden for her playing in the Uppland tradition.
Andrea Larson has performed Swedish traditional music for 20 years and has been teaching fiddle/violin from her private studio for 15 years. She enjoys exploring new ways to share her treasure trove of new teaching ideas from some of Sweden’s best fiddle teachers. She is very enthusiastic about her newly developed workshop series on practicing – which she has discovered to be fun after all!
Andrea and lydia have been playing Swedish-style fiddle together for the past decade, and spent an intense 2012-13 academic year studying in the center of the nyckelharpa universe, at the Eric Sahlström Institute. Much of their shared repertoire comes from central regions of Sweden, with a smattering of Norwegian and Danish and beyond.