Svøbsk - Sorgenfri CD

Svøbsk turns 20 –Nordic folk music with a sound of timelessness

20 years ago, Maren Hallberg Larsen and Jørgen Dickmeiss played their first public concerts under the name Svøbsk – in such exotic places as Greenland, Bornholm, Aarhus and of course quite a few different places at their home base the isle of Funen (DK). Since then, a lot of adventure has unfolded in the Svøbs musical live. Mostly at home, but also throughout Europe, India and Canada.

The two virtuoso and renowned fiddler Jørgen Dickmeiss and Maren Hallberg Larsen also live as a couple privately. They play closely intertwined as in the traditional couple dance from which they took their name and have over the past 15 years honed their empathetic interplay. They met at the conservatory’s folk music line in Odense, where they have both studied. Maren has also taken a master’s degree in classical accordion and Jørgen is a silver-plated Danish national fiddler (“Danish rigsspillemand”)

“We have never strayed from the path of an adventure and have tenaciously kept the screw in the water for 20 years now as a duo. Our concept has proven to be sustainable in lifting the legacy of the fiddlers of old in a balancing act between tradition and renewal.

With this anniversary album, we have returned to the starting point from our first album – two musicians gathered around a common passion and united in a shared destiny” Maren Hallberg Larsen, Jørgen Dickmeiss.