Folk music for consulate opening
The official opening of Norway’s honorary consulate in Arkhangelsk on Friday will be accompanied by Norwegian-Swedish folk music presented by fiddler Ragnhild Furebotten and guitarist Roger Tallroth. They are both known in their homelands for being important and popular promoters of folk music.
Roger Tallroth is famous for being a member of the Swedish folk music band Väsen and for composing Josefin’s Waltz, a tune that has spread all over the world. He has worked as a music arranger, songwriter and musician since 1990. He has participated on many record recordings and is also known for his special way of playing the 12-string guitar, a technique he now teaches other guitar players through seminars in Europe and the US. Ragnhild Furebotten is one of a few professional folk music artists from Northern Norway. She won “Spelemannsprisen” – Norway’s highest award for music artists – in 2003 with the band “Majorstuen”. The last years she has been working on solo projects. Right now she is working on her next solo album, called “Never on a Sunday”, where she works together with six of Norway’s best jazz wind players. The two musicians first played together at the world music festival WOMEX in Copenhagen in 2009. Furebotten and Tallroth will be playing in Arkhangelsk during the opening of the honorary consulate, the following reception, and on Saturday at the Barents Party, hosted by the Norwegian Barents Secretariat.
