<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>This Tuesday, Jan 14 House Concert: Fru Skagerrak details below:</b><br></span></font></blockquote><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> Santa Cruz House Concerts <<a href="mailto:Concerts@instantharmony.com">Concerts@instantharmony.com</a>><br><b>Date:</b> January 11, 2020 at 10:19:34 PM PST<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:santa-cruz-house-concerts@googlegroups.com">santa-cruz-house-concerts@googlegroups.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>[Santa Cruz House Concerts] Reminder: This Tuesday, Jan 14 House Concert: Fru Skagerrak</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> <a href="mailto:concerts@instantharmony.com">concerts@instantharmony.com</a><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">There is still plenty of room at this Tuesday's concert. I saw this trio at the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes last summer, and they were absolutely captivating.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><b> Tuesday, Jan 14 7:30 PM</b><br><b> <a href="https://fruskagerrak.com/" target="_blank">Fru Skagerrak</a>: Pan-Scandinavian fiddle trio</b></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"> Please RSVP as soon as possible to ensure your reservation and to get directions to our house. We are asking a donation of $20. Concert details below.<br>
<br> For reservations, email: <<a href="mailto:Concerts@InstantHarmony.com">Concerts@InstantHarmony.com</a>><br><br></div><div>Fru Skagerrak will also be appearing:</div><div> <b>Wed, Jan 15, 7:30pm</b> Mountain View House Concert</div><div><div> Info/reservations: email <<a href="mailto:SV.houseconcerts@gmail.com" target="_blank">SV.houseconcerts@gmail.com</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr"></div></div><div> <b>Thu, Jan 16, 8pm, with <a href="http://www.sverfolk.com/en/" target="_blank">Sver</a>: </b>Freight & Salvage, Berkeley</div><div> <a href="https://www.thefreight.org/e/sver-s-epic-nordic-folk-fest-76376804077/" target="_blank">Click for info</a><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">-------<br><b>Upcoming shows in our series:</b><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><b> Thu, Feb 27: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maeve_Donnelly" target="_blank">Maeve Donnelly</a> w/Kyle Alden</b>: Irish fiddle & guitar<br></div></div></div></div></div><div> <b>Tue, Apr 21: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/brendacastlesconcertina/" target="_blank">Brenda Castles</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/joeyabarta/" target="_blank">Joey Abarta</a>:</b> Irish concertina and uilleann pipes</div><div> <b>Thu, May 7: <a href="https://brucemolsky.com/bruce-allison" target="_blank"> Bruce Molsky & Alison deGroot</a>:</b> Old-time fiddle and banjo</div><div> <b>Thu, Jun 4: </b><a href="https://www.andrewfinnmagill.com/" style="font-weight:bold" target="_blank">Andrew Finn Magill</a><b> and <a href="https://www.juliolemos.net/" target="_blank">Júlio Lemos</a>:</b> Brazilian violin & guitar</div><div><br></div><div><b>Other events of interest:</b></div><div><b> Sun, Jan 26: 7:30pm <a href="http://realitythief.com/" target="_blank">Brad Barton</a>: </b>Reality Thief/Mentalist/Magician</div><div> Westside Santa Cruz: <a href="mailto:herrmann@ucsc.edu" target="_blank">email for reservations</a></div><div><br></div><div> <b>Wed, Jan 29: 7:30pm <a href="http://InstantHarmony.com/chorus.html" target="_blank">World Harmony Chorus</a></b> Concert *free*</div><div> United Methodist Church, 250 California St, Santa Cruz</div><div> </div></div><div dir="ltr">______________________________________________________________<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><b> <a href="https://fruskagerrak.com/" target="_blank">Fru Skagerrak</a>: Pan-Scandinavian fiddle trio</b></div><div></div><div dir="ltr"><b> Tuesday, Jan 14 7:30 PM</b><br></div><div dir="ltr"><b><br></b></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><i> "To say that Fru Skagerrak is greater than the sum of it’s parts would diminish the</i></div><div dir="ltr"><i> cultivated talents of each of these individuals. I love how their unique strengths</i></div><div dir="ltr"><i> are grafted together to create something that could not exist without the others."</i></div><div dir="ltr"><i> – Laura Cortese, fiddler and singer</i></div><div dir="ltr"><br> Fru Skagerrak takes you on a journey through Scandinavia; from lowlands to mountains,</div><div dir="ltr">from slow airs to roaring polkas, and everything in between. Fru Skagerrak – ”Lady Skagerrak” –</div><div dir="ltr">are three master musicians, one from each Scandinavian country: Maja Kjær Jacobsen from</div><div dir="ltr">Denmark, Elise Wessel Hildrum from Norway, and Anna Lindblad from Sweden. The trio brings</div><div dir="ltr">together the diverse traditions from each of their homelands, which surround the Skagerrak strait.</div><div dir="ltr">Through a repertoire of traditional tunes, new compositions, and songs in their respective</div><div dir="ltr">languages, they express their kinship and love of their shared heritage. The result is an explosion</div><div dir="ltr">of the sounds that exist in Scandinavian music today.</div><div dir="ltr"><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://majasmusik.weebly.com/hvem-er-maja.html" target="_blank"><b>Maja Kjær Jacobsen</b></a> (Denmark): </font></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap">fiddle, voice</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> The fiddle playing and singing of Maja Kjær Jacobsen is beautiful and intense. She has travelled</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">and performed in many different countries, performing her ”darling”, the exotic sounding traditional</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">music and gorgeous songs of Central Jutland in Denmark, and it has caught the attention of her</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">audiences as well as many critics. Her own compositions radiate a special power, and she can</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">bring out cinematic soundscapes from both her more delicate tunes as well as the raw and</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">breathtaking reels. The inspiration for her tunes comes from an upbringing where many different</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">musical genres rang regularly through the house.<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://fruskagerrak.com/fruerne/" target="_blank"><b>Elise Wessel Hildrum</b></a> (Norway): fiddle, recorder, voice</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Elise is one of quite a few Norwegian folk flute players. She grew up playing mostly classical</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">music, but discovered the world of folk music at the age of 20, and decided that this was what</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">she wanted to play. As a recorder player it was natural for her to learn the Norwegian "sjøfløyte"</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(sea-flute) tradition from Numedal. This has been the core of her repertoire through several years</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">of folk music studies. Elise also plays the fiddle, mostly for fun and in social settings. After finishing</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">her folk music degree, Elise has been working as both flute and fiddle teacher, both privately and</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">at the Academy of Music in Oslo.<font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.annalindblad.se/anna/" target="_blank"><b>Anna Lindblad</b></a> (</font></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap">Sweden): fiddle, 5-stringed fiddle, voice</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> Anna Lindblad is a versatile fiddler from Sweden. Her powerful fiddle playing is steeped in</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">groove, joy and presence. Anna is just as old-fashioned as she is innovative and with a nod</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">to the tradition she brings her music forward, blending all her diverse musical interests into a</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">very special voice that’s all her own. With a heart beating for Swedish tradition she is not</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">afraid to mix it up with other musical expressions. Besides her Swedish fiddling she also plays</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Québecois, Irish and Old-time, always with a smile and a contagiously positive attitude and spirit.<font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><i> "The joy is evident in the companionship and in the music of these 3 powerhouse women</i></div><div dir="ltr"><i> from 3 different Scandinavian countries and fiddle traditions. Their combined sound is one</i></div><div dir="ltr"><i> of effortless beauty, grooving dance energy, and elegant arrangements. Not to be missed!"<br> – Natalie Haas, Cellist<br></i><br> <br></div>
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