{"id":547,"date":"2015-04-19T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T10:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soniasvikt.org\/?p=547"},"modified":"2015-04-28T23:31:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T21:31:59","slug":"beyond-my-wildest-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soniasvikt.org\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"Beyond My Wildest Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had the most amazing evening yesterday, beyond anything I had ever imagined doing. I certainly never expected it to happen in this course. Olov invited our class to “open” for V\u00e4sen in a concert at the Uppsala Konsert\u00a0and Kongress (UKK). We played a set of about 7 tunes as people were going into the concert hall, then went up on stage after they had settled in their seats and played a tune. Then V\u00e4sen came out and played. They introduced us after their 1st or 2nd tune, when we were seated in the front row. What a dream!<\/p>\n

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Here we are playing as people went into the concert hall. We are in front of a sign for the Eric Sahlstr\u00f6m Institute.<\/p><\/div>\n

It was a really great concert, a Folkmusikgalan<\/a>, with three sets of trios, V\u00e4sen (Olov Johansson, Mikael Marin, and Roger Tallroth from Sweden<\/a>, absolutely my favourite group), Dreamers’ Circus (Rune Tonsgaard S\u00f8rensson, Ale Carr, and Nikolai Busk from Denmark<\/a>), and the bluegrass\u00a0I’m With Her tour (Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, and Aoife O’Donovan from the USA<\/a>). The Danish and American groups were new to me and were really amazing musicians and such incredibly nice people. What a privilege to hear them and meet them, and they heard us!<\/p>\n

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Here is our group of 6 students playing our tune on stage at the beginning of the concert. Our two fiddlers had prior commitments and were not able to join us.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Here’s our dressing room backstage.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Next to the V\u00e4sen dressing room backstage<\/p><\/div>\n

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V\u00e4sen<\/p><\/div>\n

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Some wonderful dancers, Inger Hallstr\u00f6m Stinnerbom och Leif Stinnerbom, were given medals by V\u00e4sen and danced a to newly composed polska.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Introducing the awards to the dancers.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dreamers’ Circus<\/p><\/div>\n

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I’m With Her Tour. They began with an amazing a cappella song.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Collaborations near the end of the concert<\/p><\/div>\n

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