Skye Consort & Emma Björling

About this event

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Skye Consort & Emma Björling is a bunch of renowned musicians from Canada and Sweden who make marvelous music together. They're mixing trad music from Scandinavia, Ireland and the British Isles, French-Canada, and tunes of their own devising. They find enchanting stories and melodies, then bring them into the 21st century with worldly chamber-folk settings. Voices, fiddle, nyckelharpa, cello, bouzouki, banjo, and percussion riffing on whirling polskas, groovy reels, passionate love songs, breathtaking hymns, and original compositions. Skye Consort and Emma met during a La Nef project in Montréal in October 2017.  At the end of the project, just as Emma was preparing to return to Sweden, a HUGE storm in Iceland cancelled all of the flights from North America to Europe.  Emma and the members of Skye consort spent the next several days listening to tunes, jamming, and joking about starting a band.  By the time Emma went home, the BAND had actually been STARTED! ‘Emma Björling controls her voice like no one else, a voice that can be sweet, strong, fluffy, jazzy, or a bit poppy’  - Luise Rube, Lira Music Magazine ‘Lots of groups combine elements of music from Scandinavia, Ireland, Scotland, England, and French Canada. None of them do it like Skye Consort….the musicianship of this band is stunning’ - David Noel Edwards, The Berkshire Edge