Workshops
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Included in admission to Umefolk!
Some courses may have limited space, in which case sign ups are first come, first served. Register for courses at the festival office, where you can also find out about any changes. The festival office opens Friday 22 February tentatively at 12 pm. Please note: The Sunday course costs SEK 500, payment due at time of course. Register for this course below via the link under the course description. The courses are offered in cooperation with the Bilda educational association.
Course dates and times are subject to change.
English tunes on the fiddle
Saturday 23 February. Time: 12.00-12.45 pmRoom: Rist
Rowan Rheingans is from Sheffield in northern England. She is an experienced musician and performer of traditional English fiddle music and other styles. In this short workshop, she will present a few of her favourite English tunes and talk about how the English style is different from Irish and Scottish fiddle music, which have become much better known outside the UK. Everyone is welcome to joins us!
Folk dance - from folk culture to the subculture
Saturday 23 February. Time: 1-2 pmRoom: Peterson-Bergersalen
In the early 20th century many older forms of dance were disappearing. Today's vibrant folk dance movement is largely the result the efforts of a few enthusiasts to bring back the dances. In the anthology Eldsjälarna och dansarvet, many of these enthusiasts have described for the first time their work to revive and research about older forms of dance. The book's editor, ethnologist Linnea Helmersson, talks about the book, these enthusiasts and how dancing changed from folk culture to subculture.
Folk Songs from the Middle East
Room: Rist
Open for beginner and advanced singers and instrumentalists. The course will present Hebrew songs from the Klezmer tradition. Capturing melodies from Eastern Europe with touching lyrics in Hebrew. The songs are easy to learn and you don't have to read music. The workshop will be held in English.
Dafna Dori, born in Jerusalem to an Iraqi-Jewish family, will lead the workshop. Traditional Hebrew songs and melodies from the Eastern European Klezmer tradition with lyrics in Hebrew. Dafna communicates in English. All instruction is done by ear. No previous skills or knowledge required. The course is held in English.
In collaboration with NorrlandsOperan.
Contact improvisation
Saturday 23 February. Time: 1-2 pmRoom: Äpplet
Come and explore your movement language, improvise and have fun. We experiment with following and leading the movement of others, techniques for giving and receiving weight, impulses and momentum. Contact improvisation is a playful dance that explores how different bodies listen to each other, and develops your bodily and spatial awareness. No experience needed, just curiosity for exploring movement. We dance barefoot, bring comfortable clothes. The instructor is ElinMaria Andersson
A Västerbotten treasure chest of tunes!
Saturday 23 February. Time: 3-4 pmRoom: Balder
The theme for this workshop is the Old-Young project,
where Västerbotten's Fiddler Association brought together different generations
of fiddlers in 2012. The participants delved into our local treasure chest of
tunes for inspiration. You will learn two of the tunes used during the project.
The instructors are: Ulrika Frölander, Eva Maaherra-Lövheim and Staffan
Lundmark.
The project was conducted in collaboration with the Bilda educational association.
Fiddle workshop with Sandra Bradshaw
Saturday 23 February. Time: 3.30-4.30 pmRoom: Rist
Song playing and fiddle techniques taught in a basic course for less experienced young musicians. In this workshop, we begin with simpler tunes and then dig deeper in fiddle techniques and tones.
Sandra Bradshaw is a musician and educator, trained at the Falun Conservatory of Music and the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. She freelances as a folk musician, including with the trio Stormsteg, and plays Baroque music, composes her own music and works as a violin teacher. Sandra is inspired by the small details in the music and lets each stroke and ornament become an opportunity for improvisation.
Beginners schottische course
Saturday 23 February. Time: 4.15-5.30 pmRoom: Loke
Come and learn to dance schottische along with the group Cirkeln.
Come as you are, there are no prerequisites. You can even come alone and make new friends in the schottische group. Sara Lindstrom and Frida Olausson will lead you in the dance while Kristian Person Hodén, Stefan Losjö and Fabian Modig will play for the dancers. We look forward to seeing you.
Beginner polska dance course
Saturday 23 February. Time: 5.30-6.15 pmRoom: Loke
Discover 3/4-beat with the music group Cirkeln.
For those of you who have always wanted to learn to dance polska, here's your chance. Jump into polska dancing together with Sara Lindstrom and Frida Olausson and let the sweet music from Kristian Person Hodén, Stefan Losjö and Fabian Modig sweep you away. We look forward to dancing with you.
Workshop with Nordic
Saturday 23 February. Time: 5-6 pmRoom: Rist
"Nyckelharpa, cello and mandolin. What can you do with that?" This was the question we asked ourselves at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm in 2004. More than eight years have passed since Nordic was formed and we are still just as curious and seeking answers to the same question. This is also the starting point for our workshop at Umefolk.We do not know exactly what will happen, but we believe it's going to be fun! All instruments and levels are welcome to join us. If you are interested in playing and open to testing new things, then this is the workshop for you.
Come join us! / Nordic
Course in Inherredspols
Saturday 23 February. Time: 7-7.45 pmRoom: Äpplet
Innherred is a district of Nord-Trøndelag county in Norway, with its own variation of the polska reel. In the shadow of the more widely known Rørospols, the Innherredspols has a more anonymous and quite existence. This workshop offers a glimpse into the special swing of the Innherredspols. The Innherredspols is still danced at community parties in Innherred.
The instructors are Carin Funseth, now living in Trondheim where she works at the Norwegian Folk Music and Folk Dance Centre as a project manager for the Bygdene Dansar Interreg project. This course is a cooperation between Bygdene Dansar and Umefolk and is funded by the EU and Interreg.
THE EUROPEAN UNION European Regional Development Fund
Dance Irish with Paddys!
Saturday 23 February. Time 8-9 pmRoom: Äpplet
Come dance Irish with Eva Teljebäck and the Paddy Person Group, who have been playing their reels and jigs for over 30 years now. No previous experience is required.
Dance tango!
Saturday 23 February. Time: 9.30-10.30 pmRoom: Äpplet
This workshop provides a short description of the
history and development of tango. In addition, you'll learn some basic steps
and simple moves.
Instructor: Lena Hellander and Carlos Arenas
In addition, Lena Hellander and Carlos Arenas will
treat us to a dance performance.
Flamenco Show
Saturday 23 February. Time: 10.30 pmRoom: Äpplet
Flamenco show with students from Sofia's Flamenco in Umeå.
Short course with Tuulikki Bartosik - concertina and accordion player and a orchestra leader
Sunday 24 February. Time 1-3 pm.Room: Rist
Price: SEK 500, paid on the time of the course. Basic requirements: Participants should be familiar with their instrument. Taking part in the ensemble is for experienced musicians. You sign up at: http://www.bilda.nu/sv/Amne/Cirkelinformation/?circle=568423&g=0
Tuulikki Bartosik is a created and much appreciated teacher with extensive international experience working with children, youths and adults. She teaches concertina, accordion and folk music at the college level and works with amateur musicians in the Nordic countries. Tuulikki creates its own musical world on her accordion with roots in Swedish, Finnish and Estonian music. Read and hear more at www.urakaru.com
At Umefolk, she will be playing with the Estonian Folk Orchestra.
In the ensemble course, Tuulikki will lead participants through her repertoire, conduct various ensemble exercises and present easy tips for ensemble playing. Instruction is given done by ear.
SEMINARS
Should we be observers or take initiative?!
Friday 22 February. Time: 1-4 pm. Room: Rist
The regions are taking over responsibility
from the national government for cultural policy.
What does this mean for folk and world music, dance and diversity?
What do music producers think are the consequences of the regions taking over decision-making responsibility and that the instructions previously given by the national government are disappearing?
Region Västerbotten presents how it is working with cultural planning and policy: content and work processes. What opportunities does the cultural plan offer based on the perspectives of folk and world music / dance? What is the view of the interaction between a living culture – cultures?
Discussion about the local, regional and national role of the organisations What do we want to get out of RFoD – how do we organise ourselves to strengthen folk music, world music, and dance in the coming regional processes?
Participants:
Lars Farago, association secretary RFoD
Petra Rantatalo, cultural strategist Region
Västerbotten
Music producers:
Markus Falck (Västerbotten)
Lotta Johansson (Dalarna)
Magnus Ek (Västernorrland)
Vanessa
Labanino (Västra Götaland) former county music producers, today freelancing
cultural consultant and member of RFoD's board
Michael Müller (Gävleborg)
Do we want more people?
Saturday 23 February. Time: 10 am - 1 pm. Room: Peterson Berger-salen
How do we attract larger audiences / more participants?
Vanessa Labanino (former county music producers, today freelancing cultural consultant and member of RFoD's board) and Petter Wickman (former chair of Malmö Folk, currently head of Backafestivalen and member of RFoD's allocation committee for organiser support) share their expertise and knowledge. As county music producer, Vanessa has asked why presentations of prominent musicians are often too little or lacking completely. How can this be improved? Malmö Folk belongs to one of Sweden's most successful folk music associations with growing audiences and many youth. How have they done it?
Is folk music a world heritage? What is its importance for Hälsingland and the farmhouses of Hälsingland, which have been declared a world heritage by UNESCO? Do we want polskas to become a world heritage in the same way? Would that help attract more dancers? A discussion with Martin Paju, who will soon submit his doctoral thesis on how the farmhouses of Hälsingland became a world heritage.
A discussion about non-profit organisers and RFoD's role in helping attract more people to our genre. We will discuss several ideas and suggestions but also what support do local operations need to become more visible.
In Finland people dance Zumba to stay healthy. Here, we have Folk Jam – exercising to folk music and with the folk dance movement.
- Flashmob - a different kind of genre for the people - we look at experience
- Culture night - How has this city festival done for the genre - benefits - problems - costs - work
Organiser meeting
Sunday 24 February. Time: 10 am - 12 pm.
Location to be announced.
Meeting for folk and world music organisers with focus
on those from northern Sweden but open for organisers from other parts of the
country. Agenda:
Northern Swedish lobby for organisers
Future State/RFoD organiser support
Tour cooperation - artists from Sweden - artists from abroad
Folk and world music gala programme for organisers
Training – seminar collaboration
New STIM contract
Cooperation with educational associations