Frigg

Acoustic Nordic folk music is advanced by the next generation through Frigg, a new group rich with folk heritage from Finland and Norway. Combining elements of their respective folk traditions with touches of American Appalachian and country & western music, they create an entirely new sound which feels simultaneously innovative and familiar.

The seven-piece band contains three young Järveläs — two sons and a daughter of the most famous fiddle family in Finland, whose fathers and uncles founded JPP — and two Larsen brothers, members of a comparable Norwegian Hardanger fiddle clan. The traditional sounds are then supercharged with innovative arrangements, and combined with mandola, cittern, double bass, guitar and dobro.

This young band has been dazzling festival audiences in Scandinavia and creating a phenomenal buzz among listeners and fellow musicians. This, their debut CD, was co-produced by Finnish folk's everyman, Timo Alakotila. —Courtesy Calabash Music