Mon 4/10 - Spælimenninir
Schedule
Mon Apr 10 2023 at 07:30 pm
Location
Silver Spring Civic Center | Silver Spring, MD
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Monday April 10th, 2023 Institute of Musical Traditions presents Spælimenninir.
Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans Plaza | 1 Veterans Place, Silver Spring, MD 20910 | 7:30pm
Tickets are $25 in advance (+$2 box office fee) and $30 at the door
The performance will begin as a seated performance, but halfway through we're all going to stand up, shove the chairs to the sides and dance waltzes, polkas, and some regional-instructed dances. (everyone's going to learn together - even YOU!)
Spælimenninir’s music is as familiar as an old time barn dance and as exotic as the landscape of the Faroe Islands, the band's home in the North Atlantic. It’s music of the Nordic counties drawing on traditions centuries old and compositions new as today. The multinational background of the members and combination of instruments make the music unique; no other band in the world sounds like Spælimenninir . Kristian, Sharon Ívar, Erling Lars and Charlie, traveling and performing together for more than 45 years, continue to inspire and elate multi-generational audiences.
Spælimenninir (“the folk musicians”) is a lively group of six musicians that play traditional and contemporary folk music from Scandinavia on fiddle, recorder, piano, guitar, mandolin, acoustic bass and vocals. The group’s home base is the Faroes, but Spælimenninir is not strictly a Faroese band, neither in personnel nor music. Having played together for over 40 years, the current line-up includes one native Faroese, two Americans and three Danes. This international collaboration has resulted in a varied repertoire, which reflects each member’s heritage and illustrates the links between the music traditions of the Scandinavian countries and the United States.
Spælimenninir’s wide range of material, skilled musicianship and jovial stage presence always combine to create an entertaining and informative evening. Spælimenninir has toured widely in the Nordic Countries; Scotland, Orkney and Shetland; continental Europe and the United States playing at folk festivals, dances, clubs, and concerts and conducting educational programs in schools and universities.
More about Spælimenninir at spaelimenninir.com
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Where is it happening?
Silver Spring Civic Center, 1 Veterans Pl,Silver Spring,MD,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
