Bjärv

Bjärv is a modern folk ensemble from Sweden.

Mikael Grafström plays guitar and is from Ångermanland, Sweden; Fiddler Olof Gothlin is from Varmland, Sweden; Ben Lagerberg-Teitelbaum is from Evergreen, Colorado and plays nyckelharpa. The three met at the Eric Sahlström Insitute in Tobo, Sweden in 2001.

Mikael and Olof are study folk music at the music academy in Malmö, Sweden. Olof became a Riksspelman in 2006. Mikael Grafström is an increasingly prominent nyckelharpa builder.Ben has studied at Bethany College and the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, becoming the first North American to earn a bachelor's degree in nyckelharpa performance. Ben is a doctoral student in ethnomusicology at Brown University.

The band's name is a portmanteau of the Swedish words for bear and wolverine.

They played at the California Worldfest in 2003, and in 2004 they had a tour of the USA.

External links

* [http://www.bjarv.com Bjärv official website]