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SUMMARY:Nordic Fiddlers Bloc
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 ]\nFrom the moment Kevin Henderson\, Olav Luksengård Mjelva and Anders Ha
 ll of The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc first played together in 2009 they felt a p
 articular chemistry in the sound they created.\n\nSome seven hundred gigs 
 later\, playing across Scandinavia\, mainland Europe\, the U.S. and the UK
 \, that chemistry continues to draw the trio together.\n\nPassion is a wor
 d that comes up often in conversation with Henderson\, Mjelva and Hall. It
 ’s a word that lies behind the trio’s determination to find exactly th
 e right tunes to play and exactly the right way to play a certain phrase (
 Henderson has been known to find forty different examples of them playing 
 the  same motif stored on his mobile phone from rehearsals). Passion for 
 the music they make is also what makes them endure forty-two-hour flights 
 that should only have taken two – to – three hours to get to a concert
  rather than let the promoter and audience down.\n\nHundreds of tunes have
  been tried and laid aside in The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc’s quest for the m
 usic which on two albums\, their self-titled debut from 2011 and Deliveran
 ce\, from 2016\, has charmed listeners in the same way that their live per
 formances beguile and satisfy.\n\nIn the beginning they were intrigued. Fo
 r Henderson\, who grew up in the fiddle-rich tradition of the Shetland Isl
 ands\, there was a mystery in hearing his Scandinavian colleagues harmonis
 e with one another. Although Fiddlers’ Bid\, the Shetland group he has p
 layed with since his teens and continues to work with\, create a harmoniou
 s\, four-fiddle sound\, the Swedish tradition of having one fiddle play a 
 melody and another shadowing it with a harmony line\, was something new to
  him.\n\nThe jamming sessions that led to the threesome coalescing into a 
 group showed them that they could not only create a unique sound\, they al
 so had a richness\, helped by their use of standard fiddles\, octave fiddl
 e\, viola and Hardanger fiddle\, that has led to them being likened to a s
 tring quartet rather than just a trio.\n\nFolk music promoters and festiva
 ls internationally have picked up on the Bloc’s uniqueness. They have pl
 ayed at major events including Tønder Festival in Denmark\, Scotland’s 
 mammoth Celtic Connections winter music festival\, Cape Breton’s prestig
 ious Celtic Colours\, and the annual A Celtic Christmas Sojourn in Boston.
 \n\nRecognition\, including a Norwegian Folk Award and a place in Songline
 s magazine’s Top of the World selection for their first album\, has come
  their way and as fellow musicians including Dutch jazz violinist Tim Klip
 huis invite them to participate in events such as his Rotterdam Fiddle Wee
 kend\, the trio have opened their ears to future possibilities in the jazz
  and classical spheres.\n\nAs dedicated tradition bearers\, they have also
  created their own annual fiddle camp\, which has taken place in Norway (2
 018) and Sweden (2019) and is due to visit Shetland next\, while seeking o
 ut the tunes that will emerge on their much-anticipated third album in 202
 0.\n[/av_textblock]
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