Composer and competition-winning guitar player; Jonny’s outstanding technical ability, coupled with a wide-ranging musical taste has made him a tireless and forceful musical innovator. Jonny currently plays with the successful UK Folk duo "Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer" and the trio SeriousKitchen.  He also does a range of session work for folk artists and singer songwriters.

 Jonny has been singing choral music, soul, jazz and folk for as long as he can remember (which hopefully is more a reflection on the amount of time he's been doing it than how short his memory is).

A singer, songwriter and storyteller Nick is a dynamic and passionate performer whose love for the traditional culture of the British Isles forges together the note, the song and the spoken word into a unique and engaging style. His work has taken him all over the UK and around the world, playing at folk clubs, literature festivals, village halls and venues such as the South Bank and the Albert Hall. Nick's style is confident, deliberate and  disarming, and his performances are memorable. Critics all agree on the richness of his voice, whether singing or speaking.

You will find different styles of music here. Mainly "the gammelharpa", played in various ways. Gammelharpa = silverbasharpa, kontrabasharpa, moraharpa and also kontrabasharpa med dubbellek. But also 3 and 4 row nyckelharpa as well as the old Scandinavian instrument psalmodikon

I played the psalmodikon from the age you start walking and talking, but before now there is a 40 year gap, and I never played it much. After having played other instruments I began playing the fiddle 1968 or so and from 1971 I saw Sparf Anders once a week for a couple of years. Then he introduced me and Anders Gustafsson to Perols Gudmund Olsson in Gärdebyn. I went there almost every weekend for some years. In the early 70:th I got my first nyckelharpa - an old one. In 1974 my father build the modern type…

Here you can also find some tunes with Erik Fredelius, Sven Nordin and some others. But mostly just me :)At the YouTube channel Nyckelharpans Forum you will find lots of old recordings including Joel Jansson, Eric Sahlström, Otto Larsson, and many others

The 4 row nyckelharpa is here tuned GDAE, and the  ordinary 3 row is tunedCGCA or on occasion CGDA. The Silverbasharpa is also tuned CGCA but it is a drone instrument. So is also the kontrabasharpa (D followed by the Drone in G or sometimes A mainly plus D but there is other tunings used as well as A,A) and then the first melody string A. I bought one for christmas 2013. But it has become my favorite instrument. You can also hear me play some other instruments like autoharp, electric base and guitar and synth.  

Note - I also post some friends tunes here from time to time and it might be yet another kind of nyckelharpa, kontrabasharpa med dubbellek, as well as mouth organs, normal and the bass kind. Friends, is to be read mainly as Sven Nordin)

Many tunes are inherited from the linage of Perols Gudmund, Tång Gudmund and Dal Jerk. They are meant to be played at the violin and here they of course sound different, due to the choose of instrument. Others are nyckelharpa tunes - inside or outside the tradition

Jag är en frilansande musiker och kompositör, med ena foten fast förankrad i berättandet och teatern och den andra i musikens värld. Jag söker ständigt efter ny uttryckssätt på mitt huvudinstrument nyckelharpan och försöker att ständigt utmana mig själv i mitt skapande. 
När jag inte skriver musik till bland andra kungliga dramatiska teatern, Sveriges television och Utbildningsradion med mera, är jag aktiv i banden Babajaga, 75öre, Act of emotion och som pedagog. 
Min utbildning har jag fått vid kungliga Musikhögskolan i Stockholm.

Adventurous Celtic songs and podcasts for Geeks

Marc Gunn plays Celtic Geek music. It's rhythm & folk music on the autoharp, fusing traditional Irish and Scottish songs with a comedic twist. He has released over 20 solo albums since 2004. His love of science fiction conventions, Renaissance festivals, fantasy, comedy, dragons, and cats shows in his music.

Marc was nicknamed The Celtfather, and not just because he is the father of two wonderful girls. It's because he pushes the limits of Celtic music online. He has won awards, gives away a full album of his music and you can enjoy hundreds of hours of podcasts. Marc Gunn helps you celebrate Celtic culture through music, while reassuring you it is awesome to be a Geek!

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