Music in the Park

Summer Evenings in the Park at the Ethnographic Museum

Warmly welcome to balmy summer evenings under the treetops! For eight Wednesday evenings this summer, the Ethnographic Museum, in collaboration with Stallet Världens Musik, is hosting wonderful concerts in the park. Enjoy music, hammocks, and birdsong in the evening sun. Naturally, the Matmekka restaurant will be open!

JULY 3: TEENTAL

The world music group Teental mainly performs original compositions at the intersection of classical North Indian music, jazz, and Swedish folk music. Their music is meditative and improvised, creating a musical meeting between Indian and Western traditions. The group has toured around Sweden and India, performing at various venues, music clubs, and festivals, including the Stockholm Jazz Festival, Umeå Jazz Festival, and the Nefertiti Jazz Club in Gothenburg.

JULY 10: JON SOUSA & SANDRA WONG

Sandra and Jon weave together original and traditional music to take the audience on a journey through the full spectrum of human emotions. The duo skillfully moves between heartfelt deep tunes and foot-stomping rhythms.

JULY 17: LILIANA ZAVALA TRIO

Percussionist Liliana Zavala is a hidden gem in the Swedish music scene, playing with artists like Ale Möller and Fever Ray. Her latest album earned her a Grammy nomination for Best Folk Music in 2023. When she received the SKAP award in 2022, it was noted that she is one of the most innovative and groundbreaking creative forces in the modern Swedish folk music scene.

JULY 24: KALEJDOSKOP TRIO

Kalejdoskop Trio is a prism of Norwegian and Swedish folk music. With vocals and shrutibox, clarinet, hardingfele, and octave violin, they create a sound with a raw core and a large space where both heart-wrenching doomsday chorales and sweet tunes fit. They offer open tones and tight swing in tunes and stev, chorales, and lokk. Musically, they have been likened to the legendary group Rotvälta. Their debut album “Kalejdoskop” will be released on Gammalthea in August 2024.

JULY 31: NIOKI BEATS

This original duo released the music “Tjáhtje ja dållå,” based on yoik and West African rhythms, last fall and will be on tour in the summer of 2024! On stage, they perform yoik, goabdes (Sami drum), and a variety of West African percussion instruments live in exciting costumes, to a sea of electronic sounds and heavy rhythms.

AUGUST 7: SIRI KARLSSON & YASMINE EL BARAMAWY

The experimental duo Siri Karlsson constantly surprises listeners with their energetic and epic music of dark folk and psychedelia. They blend nyckelharpa, saxophones, electronics, synths, and evocative vocals into a unique concoction. Over the years, the duo has received awards at Manifest, the Folk and World Music Gala, SKAP’s Avant Garde Award, and the Stockholm City Cultural Scholarship. For this event at the Ethnographic Museum, they have invited their Egyptian friend Yasmine El Baramawy on oud and percussionist Ryan Packard, a free jazz musician from Chicago.

AUGUST 21: IRRBLOSS

In 1913, Signe Aurell left Sweden to seek her fortune in the USA on her own. She worked as a laundress and political writer, becoming a civil rights activist and contemporary of protest singer Joe Hill, who was executed for murder in 1915.

Signe wrote poetry and published her metrically perfect and linguistically glowing collection “Irrbloss” in Swedish in 1919. Her previously unknown poems are about homesickness and the struggle for a brighter future. 100 years later, they have been set to music where folk music meets song, and the compositions lift every meaningful word.

It is surprising that Signe Aurell has not received more attention in Sweden, but now is the time. And the settings are absolutely delightful. It is infinitely beautiful and at the same time both delicate and strong. Don’t miss it!

AUGUST 28: FILIP JERS & EMIL ERNEBRO

Emil Ernebro (guitar) and Filip Jers (harmonica) are two unique musicians on the Swedish music scene. The duo was formed in 2017 but had heard for years that they should play together!

Ernebro and Jers push the boundaries of what their instruments can do and sound like. Emil Ernebro’s fingerstyle guitar playing is world-class, and Filip Jers has been called “The Swedish Harmonica Sensation” by international music journalists and has become a world champion in harmonica.

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