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 Musicians and Choirs - Norish Fest 2011
Who’s who ....?
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From Norway
- Eli Storbekken
Eli is one of the most recognised and experienced folk singers in Norway and she has represented Norway in Russia, Ukraine, United States, Qatar and the Far East. She has a long and varied career in vocal folk music and collaborates with musicians in many genres. Eli has also participated in festivals in Scandinavia but Norish Fest will be her first festival in Ireland and she is really looking forward to playing with real Irish musicians!
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- Olav Mjelva
Olav is a brilliant young Røros fiddler. He won the Norwegian national competition for Hardanger fiddle in 2008. He is a member of several folk ensembles with a huge number of recordings to his credit. 2009 saw the release of Olav Luksengård Mjelva’s debut album that made him an award winner during Spelemannprisen 2009 - the Norwegian equivalent to the Grammy Awards.
Sample soundtrack (YouTube)
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- Tone Hulbækmo
Vocal, norwegian harp, lyre, pump organ, percussion
Hans Fredrik Jacobsen
Flutes, bagpipe, accordion, guitars, oud
Tone Hulbækmo and Hans Fredrik Jacobsen are famous musicians in Norway, both as individual artists and as members of the medieval group Kalenda Maya. They have released a string of CDʼs, 3 of them winning Spellemannprisen, the norwegian Grammy.
They have a huge repertoire of folk music from different parts of Norway, especially Østerdalen, the eastern most valley in Norway, where they live today. That means sad love songs, beautiful religious hymns, poetic lullabies, lively wedding marches and powerful medieval ballads. They have worked a lot with medieval music from Spain, France and Germany, and cooperated with musicians from other parts of the world in several multicultural projects.
The musicians also compose their own music, and create musical arrangements around their more traditional music, and are equally familiar with playing in the church as in both small and bigger concert halls, as on the pub!
They have given concerts in all the major cultural events and scenes in Norway during their 30 year long career, and been touring in countries like USA, China, Vietnam, South Korea, Brasil, India, Spain, France, Germany, Estonia, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Zambia and more.
Tone and Hans Fredrik are both multiinstrumentalists and bring with them a lot of exiting instruments, some of them very rear, like the Norwegian harp. Tone gave this, in Norway long forgotten instrument a new life when she played it on her first cd in 1983.
In concert the duo give you different combinations of their instruments and musical repertoire. They are known for having a relaxed style on stage, presenting both the music and the instruments they are playing in a very informing, yet humurous style.
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.- Sneppen
Tolga's Sneppen Choir is celebrating its 20th Anniversary this year! We are very honoured that they have chosen to celebrate this great occasion by coming to Waterville and joining us at Norish Fest.
In addition to performing for us during the “Norish Sounds” concert on Friday, they will also hold a concert in O’Connell Memorial Church in Cahersiveen on Sunday together with The South Kerry Rosen Choir and other musicians.
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From Ireland
- Clare Horgan
Clare is oiginally from Waterville, on the breathtakingly beautiful Ring of Kerry. She grew up in a bilingual community on the edge of the Irish Speaking (Gaeltacht) area of Ballinskelligs. In live performance, Clare has the ability to stop an audience in their tracks, taking them on an unforgettable journey across a series of landscapes, emotional and musical. In one song, Clare will draw you into the mystical world of pre-Christian Ireland and in the next song, you will find yourself tapping your feet in a dimly-lit jazz club in 1940s New York. She is an excellent guitar and flute player.
- Russell Cunningham
Guitar
- Paddy Casey
Accordion
- Pete Mallarky
Fiddle
- South Kerry Rosen Choir
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From Sweden
- Stefan Ström
Stefan Strom is a singer and songwriter from Funasdalen in Harjedalen, Sweden. He is well known in for his interpretation of the famous Swedish artist and songwriter Evert Taube.
- Jack Jonasson
Jack Jonasson is born in Hede in Harjedalen, Sweden. He now lives in Ostersund and works for the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation (SVT) as a video photographer and cameraman. Jack has more than 50 years of experience from singing and playing accordion, bass and guitar, many years together with the famous Swedish group Brodrerna Lindqvist (The Lindqvist Brothers).
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Norish Fest 2011 was officially supported by
Cradle is a Non-Governmental Organisation working with children and community development projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Thailand, Moldova, Haiti and Cambodia. It is a registered charity, charity number CHY 10807 (Ireland).
 
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