Rättviks Spelmanslag.
The Rättvik Fiddler Group
Was founded in November 1944 at a gathering in
Sparv
Anders was the first company leader and conductor.
He introduced the condition for membership ”That one
felt a need to play folktunes”. This aim and
condition is what is required for membership to this day!
Radio and LP recordings
1948 was to be a very special year. When the rally for the provincial
Fiddlers Association (Dalarnas Spelmansförbund)
was held in Malung, Matts Arnberg from Swedish Radio succeeded in getting his chief
producer to make a live recording of a large group of fiddlers –
The Rättviks Spelmanslag.
The broadcast of this recording took place on august 25 1948. Some of
the tunes recorded and making
a major success were: Gärdeby gånglåt,
Bingsjövalsen and Bock Fars
Polska.After this, the group recorded an LP with these
tunes and added two more: Trettondagsmarschen and Kari Pers polska. These successes made
the group well known throughout
USA/Canada/France
In 1956 Erik Gudmundsson arranged the first
tour to
has a wide international exchange particularly with Kaustinen
in Finland, Roskilde in Denmark and Röros in Norway and of course, Sweden’s own big festival, Falun Folkmusic Festival.
Local folk festivals
The Rättviks Fiddlergroup
became a major part of the local festivals: Music at Siljan
from the end of
the 1960´s, The Rättviks Folklore Festival from 1974,
and from 1976, the Music in Summer Evening at Rättviks Church.The group plays a major part in the annual Midsummer May-pool
festivities and of course many¨ other community activities. In 1972 a new
LP was recorded. In
1982 the group received the Rättviks Community
Culture prize.
Our club house
Karlsviks Manor became a
home with archive, rehearsing room etc. At last we could collect all our music notes,
tapes, press cuttings and the fantastic Hans Börtas register over all fiddlers
in the
Activities now
Today we have about 100 members and nearly half of these, rehearse
regularly every Tuesdays in our present locality in the Church school, in the
centre of Rättvik. This will be a ”House of
Folkmusic” (Folkmusikens Hus) soon.Rättviks Fiddle Association is a voluntary
organisation working to promote music and folk culture through workshops.,
regular meetings, concerts and other performances. We celebrated our 50th anniversary in
1994 with a CD-recording (GCD-26 GIGA) - there you can read more about us.
Rättviks fiddlers play
mostly tunes from Rättvik and Bingsjö,
we like to play for folkdancers and like to inspire
happiness in our dance public through our performance! The young fiddlers together with the old
fiddlers create a profile and harmony and happiness in
the learn witch gives the best possibilities for recruiting new fiddlers
for the future. Rättviks Fiddle Associating is open to anyone
who has love and passion for folkmusic and wishing to improve
his/her playing under generous forms of learning and performing.
The conductors are Jon
Erik Eggens
The Chairman is Aders Säbb
