This week we continue our jaunt up north with a musical visit to Sweden, which shares much language and culture with the other Scandinavian nations–Denmark and Norway. In particular, Swedish folk music has a lot in common with the folk of its Scandinavian neighbors–fiddles, accordions, clarinets and a whole lot of dancing. In the same fell swoop in our online class (not necessarily in our blog posts, but we’ll see) we’re also going to visit Finland, Sweden’s non-Scandinavian neighbor to the east. We really shouldn’t swoop the two together — they’re different in most every way, from history to language to most elements of their culture. But, swoop we shall.
To a great week!
