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Gärdebylåten!
I read it is one of Sweden's most famous tunes and is often played at Midsummer celebrations. It's also the Rättvik's village anthem: "Jälbilåt´n"
It caught my eye when I saw some VERY different people/groups playing it! I think it's fabulous to a find tune loved by people/groups who normally play very different genres of music!
Discussion at The Session mentions this tune is also popular in the Shetlands & some of Scotland. It's misleadingly listed as a hornpipe - really a Gånglåt (walking tune), also known as "Bubbling Over" and "Marche Des Violoneux"!
Gärdebylåten - sheet music at thesession.org
🤔... ear worm?
Here's a comparison:
Rättviks spelmanslag, fiddler group from Rättvik, Dalarna County, Sweden - traditional Swedish fiddling!
Sung low & slow by Swedish Fiddler/singer Lena Willemark!
The Swedish group "Grus i dojjan" sound like they picked it up in Appalachia! ...nice groove!
Played by The Balubas - a 60's Swedish Rock band!
Norwegian fiddler, Sigbjørn Bernoft Osa - playing it with the Rock Group "Saft" (1973) in Oslo! ...ah, my High School years!
Other instrumentalists have:
AND, leveled on bagpipes in Australia!
From Bissenses Swedish Retro Vintage Music and Film Art Production:
The link to Gärdebyn at Rättviksvägen in Dalarna is not very obvious. The famous fiddler Hjort Anders registered in 1950 as a composer for the song, but there are several oral traditions about Gärdebylåtens emergence. The origin is probably in the border regions of Dalarna, Hälsingland and Gästrikland, where several songs similar Gärdebylåten. Some other people mentioned as the author of Gärdebylåten is Uusimaa Erik from Bingsjö, Erik Berg from Järbo and an anonymous accordionists from Dalstuga.
...amusing, but I think I've had my fill of it today. (lol)
Anyone know of other Nordic tunes that have made their way around like this one?
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i like the 1st one with the fiddlers. The rock version not as much but its different.
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@ABitRusty -
🤔... I was sure you'd like the 'Grus i Dojjan' version with the banjo!
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theres a banjo vrsion!!?? where?
sry..sometimes theres too much in one post to catch all details.
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@elcbk said .."..Maybe you can tell me what you'd call it? "
Good music
to me it sounds like old timey type music in the way being played. I guess maybe the inly reason it would need to be classified is if you were looking for music that had a similar sound or feel. or if you were going to go to a jam thats classified as sweedish.. vs one classified as bluegrass. I would think more people would be likely to know that tune at one that calls itself a Sweedish jam vs a bluegrass jam. But thats just me blabbing.
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@ABitRusty -
Thank you!
For some reason I was on the fence whether to describe it Old Time, or Country Style... been a problem for me.
I think it stems from associating everything I watched on the Grand Ole Opry Show (when I was growing up), as being 'Country' music... doesn't help that even Wikipedia describes it as "a weekly American country music stage concert"!
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yeah..it becomes a splitting hair thing afyer a while in my opinion. To me its really only important if learning the styles and especially attending jams. yah kinda need to know whats conaidered what for the most part. just a general statement. i think most people are pretty open to new stuff as long as someone doesnt say..attend a jam thats supposed to old time or bluegrass and expect people to play along to a stevie ray vaughn tune or something.. although... hmm.
i did same thing with any orchestral music...lump it all as classical.
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ABitRusty said
i did same thing with any orchestral music...lump it all as classical.
...I'm doing much better now, but yeah - guilty here! 😏
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I'm blaming @Grandpafiddle for this 😁 (thanks for gettin' me goin') - I'm sticking a Nordic Polka (Finnish) in here!
From Finland: a couple versions of the "Levan Polkka" or "Säkkijärven polkka" (both Wiki links) in the Anyone Interested in a "Scandinavian Fiddle Genre"? Thread. I knew it was popular, but I didn't pay much attention when @AndrewH said it had basically become a meme! I think they are both the same tune (many names), but will have to talk about it more in another thread. Cool history in the Wikipedia link about it's frequencies being used in war to disable mines(?!)
Versions of sheet music at thesession.org: Ievan Polkka & Säkkijärven Polkka
Cool version, GREAT CELLO!
...saying a lot here!
...with Folk Metal band, Korpiklaani!
...getting out my EV, with a little ricochet bowing, for Levan Phonkka!
...I've finally descended into madness.
...played it - probably THE ONLY Polka I'll ever play. (lol)
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ha..we call it finnish polka. found out here from someone its called levan there.
in the concert had it between okeefes and john ryans.
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oh we most certainly vibed...no doubt about it. and when john ryans kicked in and we had that first signature BUMP BUMP of it...crowd went absolutley wild..
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Here's a waltz loved by different types of fiddlers.
It's known in North America as "Mocking Bird Hill". Vi Wickam plays it here.
Variations of "Mockingbird Hill" - Sheet Music at The Session.org
@SharonC -
You might be interested in this duet version.
@BillyG -
Where are you? I know you've played this tune!
It became really famous in the 50's with lyrics by G.V. Horton. I probably 1st heard it as a kid with my Grandmother - listening to a Lawrence Welk rerun, Roy Rogers or Burl Ives, but there are many Country, Western and Rockabilly recordings of it. I've even seen some interesting attempts to set this to other rhythms. (lol)
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@ELCBK The Violin Place does nice arrangements (the Youtube you've listed above). I'm actually working on another one they've arranged that I planned on recording--it's a quartet--2 violin, viola, cello--but I've altered it so that it is for 2 violins, 2 violas. I don't have a cello 
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