Folk Now — is a music trip across the Europe, it varies from the burning Balkan tunes through the Kolomiyki to the rocking rhymes of Scandinavia
The ways which led each of the musicians to the folk music were different. For example the violinist Mikhailo Kachalov performer the classical music until eight years ago he was proposed to join an Irish folk band. The clarinetist Pontus Estling performed with a rock band. Cursty Yunsson though being taught to play violin, focusing of performing the folk, since childhood has dreamed about coming to the Bolliwood…
In the last September the four Ukrainian musicians and the three Sweden ones first met in Stockholm, and after a week of rehearsals they managed to perform a successful concert in Sweden and after a while a tour throughout Ukraine. They succeeded in that even not knowing each other’s languages, they communicated through the music. The musicians themselves consider the folk to have an opportunity of unification of all countries as this is something that is created together. In their opinion playing of such music is one of the best ways to meet new interesting friends as the musicians live throughout the whole world. Folk Now — is a music trip across the Europe, it varies from the burning Balkan tunes through the Kolomiyki to the rocking rhymes of Scandinavia.