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Frifot

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Genres
  
Folk

Website
  
www.frifot.se

Origin
  
Sweden (1987)

Years active
  
1987–present

Genre
  
Folk music


Albums
  
Flyt, Sluring, Järven, Frifot, SummerSong

Members
  
Ale Möller, Lena Willemark, Per Gudmundson

Awards
  
Grammis Award for Folk of the Year

Similar
  
Ale Möller Band, Esbjörn Hazelius, Groupa, Filarfolket, Ranarim

Frifot oxen och magen femton finnar


Frifot is a Swedish folk music trio which was formed in 1987. Its members are Lena Willemark, Per Gudmundson and Ale Möller. When it was first formed, the group called themselves Möller, Willemark & Gudmundson; the name Frifot, literally footloose, comes from the lyrics of one of the songs they play. Over the years, the trio's members have also had solo careers and performed with other groups, but Frifot has never ceased to exist as a group. Their fifth full-length CD was released in October, 2007.

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The trio has toured in a number of countries including Poland, Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, the United States and India, as well as the Nordic countries. Their third tour of the United States, in 2000, included a performance on the radio show A Prairie Home Companion. Their CD Sluring received the Grammis award for the best folk music album of 2003.

Members

  • Lena Willemark, vocals, violin, wooden flute
  • Per Gudmundson, violin, Swedish bagpipes, vocals
  • Ale Möller, mandola, droneflute, wooden flute, shawm, harmonic, low whistle, willow flute, hammered dulcimer, folkharp, vocals
  • Discography

  • Frifot, 1991 (as Möller, Willemark & Gudmundson)
  • Järven, 1996
  • Frifot, 1999
  • Summer Song, 1999 (compilation album)
  • Sluring, 2003
  • Flyt, 2007
  • Songs

    SommarvalsJärven · 1996
    Femton finnarJärven · 1996
    Oxen och mågenJärven · 1996

    References

    Frifot Wikipedia