Swedish Folk Music Festival

Perhaps, it is difficult to admire and be surprised by folk music when you are from Georgia, but Swedish folk music did it.

Information about the open stage of the WORLD MUSIC MARCH 2015 held in Stallet in Stockholm was discovered by Iryna on the Internet. It is true, that I did not have great expectations, the concert hall was so modest, the majority of audience was old people. But, from the first sound I changed my attitude. Despite the fact, that we understood only few words, songs were so emotional and fabulous. Some of the songs were full of humor and we were laughing even though it was not clear for us what was it about. Especially very impressive were the women, who were 50 years old, but so energetic and emotional. They were singing and telling the history at the same time. 

As Iryna says, it was rather unusual for her, because in Belarus folk music has just started to reborn and is not very popular. Iryna: Yeah, this open stage concert was really amazing! Thus I guess, bands who were presented, were a bit novice (that is why they appeared on free entrance day), but music and voices were beautiful, and even it seemed for me so curious that only with the help of voice (using it as a musical instrument), even sometimes without any words, an emotional story can be told.

Yesterday we understood that, Swedish folk music – this is what you must listen.