• 1.1. hymn of welcome
  • 1.2. orison of union
  • 1.3. nu rinner solen opp
  • 1.4. song composed in august
  • 1.5. the green chapel
  • 1.6. the tender hour
  • 1.7. sweet william's ghost
  • 1.8. nu solen går ned
23. Juli 2021
Label: DRAG CITY
Genre: Folk

roberts, alasdair og völvur

the old fabled river

THE OLD FABLED RIVER

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In January 2019, at the invitation of fiddler Hans Kjorstad, Alasdair Roberts travelled from his home in Glasgow, Scotland to Oslo, Norway, where the two men convened with five additional Scandinavian musicians at Riksscenen, Oslo"s centre for Norwegian traditional arts and music. Thus newly-formed, the group worked on arrangements of songs - self-written and traditional - from Alasdair"s back catalogue, in preparation for performances at Riksscenen as well as at ALICE in Copenhagen, Denmark and the bucolic western Danish island of Fano. The group was named Völvur (The Seeresses), a reference to the ancient Icelandic apocalyptic text Völuspa (The Prophecy of the Seeress). In January 2020, Völvur visited England and Scotland, to perform with Alasdair ... read more