Take the heat off this Saturday with cool bluegrass & lingonberries from the land of the midnight sun! Bluegrass Legends is very proud to present G2 of Sweden... And we're providing the lingonberries! This Saturday, 21 Aug., in the air-conditioned comfort of the American Legion Hall in Evanston. Doors open at 7.00, music at 8.00 p.m.
What? Swedish bluegrass???
After WWII, magic happened when Armed Forces Radio broadcasts of American country and bluegrass music hit eardrums of Swedish fiddlers. Suddenly, the fiddlers of Sweden were energized with the mountain sounds of Bill Monroe, Flatt and Scruggs, and others. As Sweden already had an established folk music festival scene, traditional Swedish folkies found themselves succumbing to alien tempos, mountain scales, and bluesy harmonies. In the early 1960s, the jammers at folk music festivals splintered into new factions and the first generation of Swedish bluegrass pickers was born.
Full story in The European Bluegrass Blog
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