09/12/2024
Check out this event, happening this Sunday in Homer!
Nordic Fiddlers Bloc
Sunday, September 15th at 7pm
Playing Live at Faith Lutheran Church
'From the moment Kevin Henderson, Olav LuksengĂĄrd Mjelva and Anders Hall of The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc first played together in 2009 they felt a particular chemistry in the sound they created.
In the beginning they were intrigued. For Henderson, who grew up in the fiddle-rich tradition of the Shetland Islands, there was a mystery in hearing his Scandinavian colleagues harmonize with one another. Although Fiddlers’ Bid, the Shetland group he has played with since his teens and continues to work with, create a harmonious, four-fiddle sound, the Swedish tradition of having one fiddle play a melody and another shadowing it with a harmony line, was something new to him.
The jamming sessions that led to the th*****me coalescing into a group showed them that they could not only create a unique sound, they also had a richness, helped by their use of standard fiddles, octave fiddle, viola and Hardanger fiddle, that has led to them being likened to a string quartet rather than just a trio.
Some seven hundred gigs later, playing across Scandinavia, mainland Europe, the U.S. and the UK, that chemistry continues to draw the trio together.'
https://www.thenordicfiddlersbloc.com/bio/
Get tickets online at https://homerart.org/event/nordic-fiddlers-bloc/
