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Lena Willemark

Lena Willemark

Lena Willemark has been played on NTS in shows including My Ever Changing Moods w/ DJ Lance Rock, featured first on 1 August 2017. Songs played include Tjugmyren, Björnen (The Bear) and Var Hälsad Sköna Morgonstund.

Lena Willemark was born in 1960 in the village of Evertsberg, Sweden, which is situated in the province of Dalecarlia. The heritage of folk music lies deeply enrooted in Lena's music. She plays the violin and has become the best-known interpreter of traditional folk music in Sweden. In the early Eighties while at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm she became involved with jazz singing and the combination of the two music styles has made her one of this country's most unique artists. She has worked with such groups as Frifot, Entell, Elise Einarsdotter Ensemble and the award-winning group Nordan together with Ale Möller. She has also collaborated with the composer Karin Rehnqvist. In 1998 when Stockholm was the Cultural Capital of Europe she was commissioned to write a work for the occasion which was included in a series under the title "Ladies Next". Her composition "Windogur" successfully combined elements of jazz and folk music and among her fellow musicians were such giants as Bobo Stenson and Palle Danielsson.

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Lena Willemark

Lena Willemark has been played on NTS in shows including My Ever Changing Moods w/ DJ Lance Rock, featured first on 1 August 2017. Songs played include Tjugmyren, Björnen (The Bear) and Var Hälsad Sköna Morgonstund.

Lena Willemark was born in 1960 in the village of Evertsberg, Sweden, which is situated in the province of Dalecarlia. The heritage of folk music lies deeply enrooted in Lena's music. She plays the violin and has become the best-known interpreter of traditional folk music in Sweden. In the early Eighties while at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm she became involved with jazz singing and the combination of the two music styles has made her one of this country's most unique artists. She has worked with such groups as Frifot, Entell, Elise Einarsdotter Ensemble and the award-winning group Nordan together with Ale Möller. She has also collaborated with the composer Karin Rehnqvist. In 1998 when Stockholm was the Cultural Capital of Europe she was commissioned to write a work for the occasion which was included in a series under the title "Ladies Next". Her composition "Windogur" successfully combined elements of jazz and folk music and among her fellow musicians were such giants as Bobo Stenson and Palle Danielsson.

Original source: Last.fm

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Tjugmyren
Per Gudmundson, Ale Möller, Lena Willemark, Frifot
ECM Records1999
Björnen (The Bear)
Lena Willemark, Ale Möller
ECM Records1996
Var Hälsad Sköna Morgonstund
Lena Willemark, Ale Möller, Olle Linder
Amigo2005
Jemsken
Lena Willemark, Ale Möller
ECM Records1994
Trilo
Lena Willemark, Ale Möller
ECM Records1994
Havet Stomar
Hector Zazou feat. Lena Willemark
Columbia1994
Hirajoshi
Anders Jormin, Lena Willemark, Karin Nakagawa
ECM Records2015