The Folk Music Academy – July 5–9 2017
International course on Icelandic Folk Music from July 5th to July 9th. The course will be held in English.
Since 2006 the Folk Music Centre in Siglufjordur has organized a Folk Music Academy to coincide with the Folk Music Festival.
The main topics of the Folk Music Academy in Siglufjord will be the different types of Icelandic traditional and folk music, including rimur and tvisöngur (organum). Icelandic folk dances will also be introduced, as well as folk music arrangements and instrumental tradition.
Students of the Academy will also get to meet visiting artists from other countries who lecture on the traditional and folk music of their home country.
The concluding event of the Academy is the “Harvest night,” where artists, guests and students of the Academy and work shops, will perform.
Schedule
Thursday 6. july
09–11.00 – Rímur singing tradition
Gunnsteinn Ólafsson, Iceland.
11.00–12.00 – Irish Folk Music by immigrants in Canada
Sophie Lavoie and Fiachra O’Regan.
13.00–14.00 – Dances from Guinea
Mamady Sano, Guinea
14.00–15.00 – How to deal with Folk Music Tradition
Hyvä Trio, Finland.
15.00–16.00 – The Icelandic Folk Music collector Bjarni Þorsteinsson
Gunnsteinn Ólafsson, Iceland.
Friday 7. july
10.00-11.00 – The two part organum Tvísöngur in Iceland
Gunnsteinn Ólafsson, Iceland.
11.00-12.00 – The Icelandic Folk Instruments
Hildur Heimisdóttir, Iceland.
13.00-14.00 – Swedish Folk Music
Malin Gunnarsson, Sweden.
14.00-15.00 – Rythmes in Guinea
Mamady Sano, Guinea
15.00-16.00 – Russian Gypsy music
Krilja Trio, Sweden
Saturday 7. july
10.00-12.00 – Icelandic Folk Dances
Those students who wish to get merits from the University for the course must write a paper or do a project on Icelandic Folk Music and hand it in before the 15th of August. The paper can be in Icelandic, Danish, German, Norwegian, Swedish or English.
