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Klappvalsen

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Notes from Viktoria Ahlman:

Klappvalsen, ”the clap waltz” is a more modern tune and it’s written by a great fiddler, Mats Edén from the county Värmland in Sweden. The county borders Norway, and Norway and Sweden share many of the musical and dance traditions found in the area. 

Later on Patrik Rydman has written lyrics for this tune. 

These days Klappvalsen is a well known tune around Sweden. It’s a good one to know when you visit festivals and stämmor here. 

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Björnlåten

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Notes from Viktoria Ahlman:

Björnlåten is from the village Marsvik, Vilhelmina. Vilhelmina is the northwest county in Sweden. 

I talked to the woman, Siv Burman who collected this tune in the 80s and when we talked about the name of the tune, Björnlåten which means “the bear tune”, she said it’s probably got the name cause the music reminds you of a bear coming through the woods. There are definitely bear around Marsvik that could have inspired the fiddlers! 

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Canadian Reel

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A note from Doug:

This is a dance tune we played for many years, along with The Dominion Reel.  It works great and is an intermediate level classic. This tune was first collected by Smokey Mckeen, Greg Boardman, John Gawler, and Bob Childs around 1976 when visiting maritime folklorist -tune collector Gale Huntington in Cape Cod.  He played it for them on a button accordion.
I think it is on the OGG Folkways recording from 1978. — Douglas Protsik

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