SkåneFolk Youth Ensemble is a project in which, since 2010, twenty youngsters between 15 and 18 years of age from Skåne get the chance to work professionally for two weeks of their summer holiday as paid artists, by putting together a show based on traditional music and dance from the region.

Everybody Gets Lonely Orchestra is a band that with the motto "Reclaim R & B!" plays instrumental dance music from the time when Soul and R & B was not mass produced electronical music, but super groovy live music with powereful horn sections and muscular Hammond organs. Think Booker T & the MGs, Sly & the Family Stone...

 

Grannars' youtube channel!

I also do solo performances, which could be both for dancing and for listening. It could be a program with Swedish folk music, but could also include folk music from other parts of the world. I use several different instruments; saxophones, different flutes, harmonica, hurdy gurdy, didgeridoo etc.

Folk and world music workshops and  concerts for kindergartens, schools, high schools, universities, music schools etc.

Workshops and school concerts are an important part of the work of both myself and allmost all of the bands that I play with. This is a very short summary, for further information contact me.

• I do a solo show called "Around the World in 45 minutes", which  I have been doing allmost 100 concerts with in schools mainly for kids from 9-12 years. The show can be done both in Swedish and in English. I also do individual workshops and lectures.
• Both Tummel, World Mix Orchestra, Högtryck and Grannar all do school concerts and workshops for all ages. All can be done in English. Besides that, Tummel can do workshops in Danish, German, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, and Spanish. WMO workshops can be done in French, Persian, and Serbo-Croatian.

 

Several of my concert programs are very suitable for performing in churches, both in connection with religious services and as regular concerts. 

In the spring of 2005,Pär Moberg was asked by the Regional Music Trust to put together a band consisting of some of all the wonderful folk musicians from all over the world living in and around Malmö. The repertoire is created by the members in cooperation, and consists of traditional and newly composed folk music from all the traditions we represent.

In 1974, one of Sweden`s most influential modern writers, Pär Lagerkvist, passed away. In 2004, 30 years after his death, appeared a group who has specialized in performing music set to his lyrics. It`s actually a bit strange that no such group has appeared before, considering how well his poetry is suited for this.

Högtryck – World Wide Wind

A whole bunch of excellent wind instrument folk musicians happen to live in or near the city of Malmö. That`s how the idea of Högtryck was born; a folk music group with winds only.

I Nordic Raga experimenterar Pär Moberg, sax, och Dan Svensson, slagverk och sång, med att använda sig av teorimodeller och framförandepraxis för improvisation inom klassisk indisk musik, men använda nordiska skalor och rytmer.

John Leo Carter is an irish singer/songwriter living on Öland in Sweden. He sings, plays guitar, bozouki and bodhran. He mainly plays his own compositions, but also some traditional Irish songs. we have made several concerts together as a duo, where I play saxophone, flute and didgeridoo and sing.

You can read an article in Swedish about us in Ölandsbladet here!

 

Pär, Sara, Allan

Rand (above) was a borderbreaking band, which was formed at the Academy of Music in Malmö as a meeting between three folk musicians (fiddle, saxophone and vocals), a rock guitar player and a classical cello player. The band played both traditional folk and original compositions. The band was selected as Concert of the week in national Swedish Radio, and toured for instance in Germany. The band was dissolved in 2008, but a cd with the singer/songwriter Gitte Pålsson, which the band played on, was released in 2010, and the band then reunited.

Three of the band's members, Allan Skrobe (mandola), Pär Moberg (saxophone, hurdy gurdy etc) and Sara Tufvesson, (fiddle), has also  continued to play together"in the spirit of Rand", and can be booked as a trio. You can see a short video clip of them playing together at the Malmö festival here.

 

Moberg Erici

Pär Moberg has some of his ancestors from the Swedish island of Öland, and therefore, he has done some research into the folk music traditions of that island. He shares this interest with Harald Erici, a jazz pianist born in and still living in Öland, who has released the cd "Jazz på Öländska" with jazz interpretations of Öland folk tunes. In the summer of 2009, after just one hour of repetition, the two met in a very successful concert of Öland folk music at  Gärdslösa vicary.You can see a short video clip from the occasion here. The two plan to continue playing together, and can be booked through Evolving Traditions.

Tummel is the path breaking klezmer and Balkan band that with ever-present energy takes your heart on a bungy jump. Known as a formidable live band, the Tumlers has managed to turn many a crowd into a roaring, shaking, ferocious mega party. With the motto "music for restless souls", the band re-invents the traditional East European music and turns it into something completely our own. Both our albums, OY! (2001) and Transit (2004) have received lots of very enthusiastic reviews. We have also toured extensively both in Sweden and abroad.

Moberg Lie is a duo with the members Jo Asgeir Lie, accordeon, and Pär Moberg, saxophone. They first met and played together during a folk music conference in the spring of 2012, and immediately decided to start a duo together. Their repertoire consists of a mixture of traditional Norwegian and Swedish tunes, and own compositions in the same style. The duo will make their public debut at the Nordtrad conference in Vilnius in April 2013, and after that, the group is available for tours. Below, you can listen to their first demo from March 2013, and you can watch a video clip of them here.

Every Year in the end of January, Tummel arranges a music weekend camp for everyone who are 15 years and older (youngsters as well as adults), and who share our interest in music from Eastern Europe and the Middle East. You will learn to play this music in the unique style developed by Tummel. In 2013, the camp will be from the 25th to 27th of January outside Svedala (near Malmö) in Sweden! The camp ends with a Tummel concert on the Sunday where the camp participants play together with Tummel!