Folk Live

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 yo...

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 J ørgen Dickmeiss on violin, guitar and vocals, has been performing together for more than 20 years, and they have been touring in countries like G...

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 diffe...

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 e...

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 va...

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,...

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 so...

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 l...

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 t...

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...

Welcome to RadioFolk.dk ’s podcast, Folk Live. In this edition of the podcast, we will be featuring the trio AZUR AZUR recorded at the famous Danish Tønder Festival that runs the last weekend of August every year. AZUR AZUR has created their own unique sound universe around the young double bass player, Frederik Mensink’ s acute and atmospheric compositions. But occasionally the rest of the band m...

In this podcast we will be featuring the Danish band Optur recorded at the famous Danish Tønder Festival that runs the last weekend of august every year.  Violinist Søren Korshøj is an experienced musician and composer who started the band Optur to play for dancing at the Danish folk festival Musik over Præstø Fjord. From the very beginning Søren was aware that he wanted to work with musician...

Welcome to RadioFolk.dk's podcast, Folk Live. In this edition of the podcast we will be featuring the band Solsort, recorded at the famous Danish Tønder festival, that runs the last weekend of August every year. Solsort means Blackbird and the band is build around the Danish singer and songwriter Betina Følleslev. The band is featuring songs written by Betina Følleslev, sometimes co-written with g...

FOLK LIVE - DANISH FIDDLE QUARTET Welcome to RadioFolk.dk ’s podcast, Folk Live. In this edition of the podcast, we will be featuring the Danish Fiddle Quartet , recorded at the famous Danish Tønder Festival that runs the last weekend of August every year. The Danish Fiddle Quartet was started by the violinist and singer, Jørgen Dickmeiss. Jørgen is normally playing a lot of traditional and newly...

Welcome to this special edition of the podcast Folk Live , where we feature a number of Danish bands, who participated in the showcase Folk Spot Denmark at the great Danish Tønder Festival 2023 . Folk Spot Denmark is a showcase festival focusing on Danish roots and folk music, presenting traditional Danish music as well as new folk and roots music, both of which are thriving and developing explosi...

Der var engang et lille orkester som kaldte sig Danish Dia Delight. Ja helt lille var det nu ikke, for de var fem spillefolk, og de mødtes for at starte noget op med fokus på dansk folkemusik. I dette afsnit af Folk Live skal du høre en optagelse fra Kaustinen Folk Festival i 1997, hvor bandet spillede dét der skulle vise sig at blive deres sidste koncert nogensinde. Dengang i 90'erne var det mege...

I dette afsnit af Folk Live skal du til koncert med det dansk, svensk, irsk, skotske band Himmerland. I efteråret 2022 var bandet på turné i Danmark, og den aften hvor de spillede turneens allersidste job - det var på Fermaten i Herning - blev koncerten optaget, og den er den vi skal høre uddrag fra om et øjeblik. Bandet som startedes i 2010, er nok et af de mest berejste folk/roots bands i Danmar...

Welcome to RadioFolk.dk's podcast Folk Live. In this edition of the podcast we will be featuring the Danish duo Barani , recorded at the famous Tønder Festival that runs during the last weekend of August every year. Anders Ringaard plays the accordion, and Maja Aarøe Freese plays the cello, and they both sing, writes songs and compose music. They also sometimes pic one or two songs from the rich D...

Welcome to RadioFolk.dk's podcast Folk Live. In this edition of the podcast we will be featuring the Danish duo Jørgensen & Sørensen , recorded at the famous Danish Tønder Festival that runs the last weekend of August every year. At the end of the 18th century a book full of music was forgotten in an old attic. When it saw the light of the day again about 200 years later, it was like a present...

Welcome to RadioFolk.dk's podcast Folk Live. In this edition of the podcast we will be featuring the Danish blues musician and singer Copenhagen Slim , recorded at the famous Danish Tønder Festival, that runs the last weekend of August every year. The story goes that in the beginning of his musical career, Nisse Thorbjørn , also known as Copenhagen Slim, was so poor that he would have to borrow a...

Welcome to RadioFolk.dk's podcast Folk Live. In this edition of the podcast we will be featuring the Norwegian singer Kajsa Balto , recorded at the famous Danish Tønder Festival, that runs the last weekend of August every year. Kajsa Balto is a sámi artist born and raised in Oslo. She works in a cross field between the traditional yoik singing of the sámi people, as well as pop and world music, si...

Welcome to RadioFolk.dk's podcast Folk Live. In this edition of the podcast we will be featuring the Danish double bass player Mathæus Bech , recorded at the famous Danish Tønder Festival, that runs the last weekend of August every year. Mathæus Bech is an excellent young bass player with roots in jazz and classical music, as well as in Danish folk music. He strives, as he put it, "..to continue t...

FIONIA FOLK BROTHERS Welcome to RadioFolk.dk's podcast Folk Live. In this edition of the podcast we will be featuring the Danish Fionia Folk Brothers, recorded at the famous Danish Tønder Festival that runs the last weekend of August every year. Fionia Folk Brothers are five very experienced musicians rooted in traditional Danish dance music, featuring instruments such as fiddle, accordion, double...

Welcome to RadioFolk.dk's podcast Folk Live. I n this edition of the podcast we will be featuring the Danish Tone of Voice Orchestra , recorded at the famous Danish Tønder Festival , that runs the last weekend of August every year. Tone of Voice Orchestra is a 10 piece powerhouse of a band that creates a melting pot of genres such as Scandinavian roots, jazz, balkan, blues, americana, and indie-po...

The trio Det Yderste Hav (The Outermost Sea) hail from the island of Fanø in Western Denmark and play the traditional music of the island and its neighbouring islands in a unique new version. Combining Peter Uhrbrands violin, which spans the range from the strong pulse of the traditional fiddle to free experimentation, the guitar stylings of classical guitarist Jørgen Bjørslev, who also knows his...