LIVJA
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The festival which engages LIVJA does not only obtain a ten member band capable of soothing an audience into trance like mediation or having them dancing to tribal rhythms. The band also includes English world music identities Nigel Shaw and Carolyn Hillyer whose talent and experience shines in the breadth and depth of their art:
Seth Folsom is a multi-instrumentalist but he is most comfortable delivering moving examples of bluegrass and folk ballads. Many of these are traditional pieces which Seth learnt around the farms and barn dances of his native state of Kentucky. He is capably of performing accoustically, on both banjo and fiddle, or as an unaccompanied vocalist singing the traditonal verses of long lost drifters and jail cell poets.
Johan Piribauer is a songwriter/singer and guitarist from Moskosel, Lapland, between Arvidsjaur and Jokkmokk. Although he is now living in both Stockholm and Moskosel, Johan remains passionate about the vast beauty of northern Sweden and the strong culture which it nourishes. He has performed throughout Sweden both as a solo artist and with his band. He is perfect both as a pub or café troubadour and as a larger venue artist. More about Johan is available here:
Jim Barret is an Australian Didjeridu player originally from the village of Goombungee on the mid-eastern Darling Downs of Queensland. He has been playing the Didge (Yidaki) seriously since 1995. He has lived and played in Barcelona, Amsterdam, Berlin and Stockholm featuring on television and in newspaper articles in all these cities. Since 2000 he has lived in Umeå in northern Sweden, dividing his time between family, university and music. He has taught Didjeridu workshops in Europe and Australia. He has played music for film (Sam’s Orkester Front Films Stockholm 2002) and is also a member of the world fusion group Funk Service International, who play with Jim on:
Stefan Lindbäck and Berry Johansson are a powerful team of percussionists with decades combined experience with djembe, congas, bongos, and the huge drums they craft themselves from the local timbers of northern Lapland where the both live. Berry is also an accomplished vocalist.
Erland Hofgaard and Cecilia Eklund are both music teachers’ based in Vara, Västra Götaland. Both are multi-instrumentalists playing bass, contrabass, saxophone, guitar, flute, clarinet, and vocals.
Kristina ‘Kikki’ Anderson is the primary vocalist of the group and writes and arranges several of the songs played on the Jokkmokk video. Her voice encompasses a versatile and wide range she is capable of throaty blues, tribal chanting and improvisational singing.
Tatsuya Okabayashi is a guest musician on the Jokkmokk video. He is a young Japanese musician who has been studying the music of Western Mongolia for several years. Should you choose to engage the services of LIVJA we have the opportunity to negotiate with Tatsuya regarding performing, but as he is a true nomad that depends on the season and his location.
If you wish to contact LIVJA it can be done through:
Jim Barret Stefan
Lindbäck
Språkgränd 9/201 Tel:
073-0240961
Umeå 90733 0971-38063 Tel
090-194335
[email protected] [email protected]
