BRAGR
Prepair for BRAGR!
One came from Funen, one from northern Jutland. From Sweden came the third, the fourth and last member of the band came from Gadbjerg, to gather around their mutual love for traditional melodies and folk songs.
Each one of the band members are great instrumentalists and together you’ll experience an ensemble that manages, in an extrodinary way, to back up and support each other and who makes a mutual effort to hit the core of the music they’re playing.
It’s folk music they’re plaing, no doubt about it, but BRAGR also displays how many different expressions folk music posesses.
The time span of their repertoire is well over 300 years.
Musically it’s traditional Scandinavian melodies and songs from Bellman to Halfdan Rasmussen and emotionally from painful grief and unconditional love over to joyous happines.
Reviews:
”Crispy still, moving, touching, wildly uplifting, powerfully energetic and elegantly rythmically and dynamic, the four musicians of BRAGR unfolded all their knowledge and power …”
– Helge Engelbrecht, Mariehaven
”We know Perry Stenbäck as a convincing multi instrumentalist. In BRAGR he sure expands his repertoire, and as a singer he shows an intensity and sensibility of the kind you either do or don’t have, but don’t have, if you don’t have ‘it’… ”
– Alan Klitgaard, Musik over Præstø fjord.
”The quartet, led by Swedish born Perry Stenbäck, delivered a beautiful concert, might have surprised major part of the audience, who didn’t know the band from before and as Perry said, “you won’t leave the concert hall ‘empty-eared’”. The band performed some original compositions and traditional waltzes, jigs and polskas, spiced up with the bands unique sound….. Christine Dueholm was outstanding on all her different percussion instruments and then there was Perry, who beside his amazing guitar playing also delivered great nyckelharpa tones, that would have made his Swedish master, Peter Puma Hedlund, proud….”
– Rootzone music magazin, after a concert at Strib Winter Festival
BRAGR members
Perry Stenbäck Vocal, Guitar, Nyckelharpa (keyed fiddle), Mandolin, Cister. Perry recieved a Danish Music Award/Folk (grammy) in2009 as ”Instrumentalist of the year”, and in 2010 was voted no 2 in ”Ekstrabladets” readers poll: Denmarks best guitar player
Christine Dueholm Vocal, drums and percussion (a.o things: cajon, darbuka, cymbals and bells). Christine was one of the sisters from the acclaimed bands ”Sisters” and ”Morild”.
Jesper Frost Bylling Fretless 5 string acoustic bass and background vocals. Jesper has travelled everywhere from Greenland to Southafrica with his bass, and performed with, amongst others Allan Olsen, Gary Snider and Ole Frimer.
… and carefully selected guest players
For booking contact Christine Dueholm