I'm on a bit of a kick, musically. It's another form of biography and I've always felt it to be a shorthand method of communicating something vital, visceral, and not necessarily verbal. So that's where this recent tack comes from.
As it turns out, I'm Swedish on my mother's side, so I come to my love of Swedish folk music honestly. Roger Tallroth was the composer of the previous post with Brittany and Natalie Haas performing one of his pieces. Roger also is the guitarist in the folk trio Vasen, which includes Mikael Marin on viola and Olav Johansson on the nyckelharpa. Later I will include some music by this group but first, I wanted to introduce Roger as both a composer and musician.
In this video Roger is playing one of his own compositions on a Northfield flat top octave mandolin.
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