With their roots in Nordic traditional music the Swedish duo Blankan creates a unique soundscape of archaic sounds and modern technology. Lyrical melodies and meditative drones meet blues riffs and trance grooves. The sound machinery is made up of hurdy-gurdy, folk flutes and Nordic mandola – all extended with live-looping and electronics.

Johannes Geworkian Hellman: hurdy-gurdy, swedish bagpipe & looping

Kim Persson: folk flutes, mandola & contrabass recorder

T.O.G. en bal c'est un groove acoustique assumé, un répertoire de caractère, tiré de collectages du Nivernais-Morvan, également des compositions et des airs coups de cœur pour un bal enraciné dans
le centre de la France, avec, à la fois, des arrangements construits pour la danse, de belles mélodies servies natures ou presque, et des morceaux « transes » pour que chacun y trouve son compte !

Contemporary folk music in singer-songwriter tradition 

Charlize Merighi - Singer, flute 
Christer Ådin - Låtmandola, stompboard
Bruno Andersen - Hurdy-gurdy etc.


”astonishing from the very first note /…/ Inspired by Estonian and Swedish folk music, this quartet makes their own statement /…/ This band´s vocal harmonies are little short of amazing” – Piteå-Tidningen 27/11/2016

”Any kind of nordic folk music festival would be proud to host FRÄNDER. They convey their music with a tremendous joy of playing, a powerful energy and, of course, enviable instrumental skills. They captivate their audience.” – Ando Kiviberg, founder of Viljandi Folk Festival and governor of Viljandi county. Tallinn TV 08/02/2016

Red Dog Green Dog are:
Jim Penny - Concertina/Sax
Joel Turk - Hurdy Gurdy
Michael York - Bagpipes/whistles
Jo White - Accordion
Red Dog Green Dog got together at St Chartier, the legendary music and instrument maker's festival in central france which now takes place at Chateaux D'Ars. We released our only album, Good Afternoon This is Roughly Speaking in 2002. All the copies are gone now, save for a few copies somewhere in a barn in the french pyrenees which have no covers.. 
Also here is a live gig at  La Ferte St Aubin recorded in 2004 (maybe?!).
We loved writing our own music for people to dance to. Happy times. Enjoy listening!
Jo White now plays with Fell Trio - soundcloud/fell-trio
Jim Penny plays with Owl Light Trio - soundcloud/owllight

Martin Burkhardson is following