Etno Histeria Umeuropa Caravan was a musical exchange project put together especially for the European Cultural Capital Umeå in year 2014. Artistic Leaders were Sofia Högstadius (Sweden), violin and Kieren Alexander (Australia), accordion and it was organized by Anton Teljebäck and Sofia Högstadius.
For almost a month, musicians from all over the world travelled and played together and learned from each other and from locals in different countries around their trip.
The project lives on and the group played in Folk Marathon in Copenhagen, December 2014 and in Umefolk Festival in Umeå, Sweden in February 2015 and are also planning a concert for Umefolk in 2016.
Around 40 great young folk musicians, each from different parts of the world are occupying towns, villages and forests of Europe during almost a month of summer 2014. The orchestra changes every environment into a stage, every concert into a show, every day into a new experience!
Though this orchestra is uniquely put together for 2014, the connection and foundation have been made through many years when young musicians have been meeting and playing together at Etno Histeria camp in Gracisce, Slovenia. The participants come from all over Europe to learn folk music from each other, under the leadership of experienced mentors and organizers. This year, is the first time in history we make a traveling caravan out of this project!
Each day on the way the group learn new songs from local people and transform them into unique orchestral compositions. The participants add new tunes to their concert repertoire everyday, which they have learned from each other within the group. Every day they perform at peoples homes, in schools, community centres or on big stages at festivals in cities, villages or squares.
Starting in Czech Republic, the orchestra will go by bus all over Poland, through Baltic countries, Åland and Sweden before ending up in European Capital of Culture 2014 Umeå. The project will complete itself together with even more young musicians from Sweden, Norway and Finland and become the huge musical project Folkskandia. During four days of workshops and public performances the city of Umeå will be occupied by music and emotions, collected during the trip through Europe, performed by Umeuropa Caravan and Folkskandia.
This project is partially funded by the Cultural Capital Comitee of Umeå. Press release:
http://umea2014.se/2013/10/european-folk-music-youth-to-umea
The Etno Histeria Umeuropa Caravan consists of musicians from 16 countries; Austria, Australia, Chile, Czech Republic, Canada, Denmark, England, Estonia, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, Norway, Scotland, Slovenia, Sweden and Ukraine.
TOUR PLAN:
– July –
20 Jičín, Czech Republic
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21 Wolimierz, Poland
22 Warszawa, Poland
23 Kelmé, Lithuania
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24 Riga, Latvia
– European Capital of Culture 2014 –
25-27 Viljandi Folk Festival, Estonia
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28 Ferry to Stockholm, Sweden
29 Järna
31-2 aug Åland, Finland
– August –
3 Klockarnäs, Dalarna
4 Umeå
– European Capital of Culture 2014 –
5-6 Umeuropa Festival – Musik vid havet, Norrmjöle
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7-10 Workshops and concerts with Folkskandia in Umeå
Lauge Dideriksen – violin (Denmark)
Cam Neufeld violin (Canada)
Eiliv Andreas Myren Ribe – violin, git, voice (Norway)
Bajo Kohring – violin, git (Germany)
Tove Lindborg – violin,voice (Sweden)
Katja Eilertsen – violin (Norway)
Richard Scott – violin, voice, mandolin (UK)
Luisa Brown – violin (Scotland)
Darragh Quinn – voice,fiddle (Ireland)
Hannah Sundqvist – violin, voice (Sweden)
John-Francis Goodacre – violin, bagpipes (England)
Oskar Teljebäck – violin (Sweden)
Jerica Lorenci – voice (Slovenia)
Cat Dowle – violin (UK)
Emma Lagerberg – violin (Sweden)
Anna-Christine Rheingans – violin,voc (England)
Vojtěch Drahoňovský – violin, voice (Czech)
Zofie Kasparova – flute (Czech Rep)
Petja Gorjup – flute (Slovenia)
Magdalena Kriss – flute,voice (Austria)
Anna Kurková – flute (Czech Rep)
Dave Evans – flute, bass (UK)
Cecilia Moore – sax (Sweden)
Kieren Alexander – accordeon (Australia)
Staffan Björklund – accordeon (Sweden)
Tomás del Real- git, voice (Chile)
Linus Ellström – git,mandolin, tenorbanjo (Sweden)
Jonas Pour Mozaffar – mandolin (Sweden)
Jonathan Scott Varney- git, voice (England)
Elari Ennok – ukelele (Estonia)
David Barfoot – perc (Scotland)
Ebba Wigren – perc (Sweden)
Anton Korolev – hurdy-gurdy (Ukraine)
Sofia Högstadius – violin (Sweden)
Anton Teljebäck – violin (Sweden)
Georgi Djukelov – guitar (Bulgaria)