Disastämman Ekebystämman May 28th 2017
What is this? The sun is shining and it's hot summer weather.
The Spelmansstämmorna are like a sandwich table in front of our feet.
Expect a lot of new players and good play.
But already at Old Uppsala and the Disastämman , I get doubtful.
Here it's easy to find a parking, even though I'm usually late.
And when I get into Disagården, I see almost no players.
To the all-play, 6-8 players fingers on their instruments.
I enter the stage, and after a few minutes Jonas, the bass-man start us
The show must go on.
The folk dance team FyrisGillet is participating this year, with
the companion of one person. They are doing a great job. Too bad that
there is almost no audience.
After the allplay, I go to Ekeby. This day it is two spelmansstämmor in a range of a few miles.
Here are some more players, and a bit better speed than at the
previous meeting. A few players also come from the previous meeting.
The Ekeby meeting has probably one of Sweden's longest allspel. 12 tunes!
It take some time. So, despite the fact that I'm very late here, I can play the last tunes.
Here you also get free coffee if you play. Nice!
Meeting Renate, and Lisa,
and we walk to the barn, where there are place to sit, and play a lot of good songs.
Much is new, from Healthcountry (Hälsingland) , but it is not impossible
to find the correct chord after a couple of times.
It starts to get windy, so it's nice to sit in the barn.
More players come and there is pretty good play.
