Summer with light nights, singing and dancing

Dearest blogg readers,

What happened in your peak of summer?
Did you celebrate summer solstice?
See any midsummer fairies?
Met the bear up in bear country?
I wish I did.
At least we saw bear poop in the forest.

Leo sniffing out big shit.

Right now, lovely August is covering us under her wings.

What do you wing?
What's now, what's created now?

I'm working every day with creative writing.
Not so fast today, because I struggle with a cold and fever.
So I go with the flow.
Gathering thoughts, pinning down some pictures from my dreams.
Taking small notes.
The dog needs walks and I marvel at the jungle I'm living in.
In the linden trees thousands of honey bees
sing their song.
I brought my tuning fork with me to listen carefully
to what notes they sing.
Soon this blooming is over for this year.

Living now.
Visioning forward. 
Learning from what happened.


Here's a little retrospect what happened in June-July.

My cd Vida was released on Spotify in the middle of the summer riddle.

Thank you photographer Maja Tekla Jonsson!

Midsummer light nights. Picture taken at 23.39:

Summers journey stop #1 was to dance boogie woogie in Herräng. And of course some lindy hop and blues dance and balboa too. Oh what a lovely week! We are so blessed. My daughter and I in a camping tent and spending day and night to dance.

The journey continued to the vast forests and hills and valleys where I come from. I was lucky to spend some time with my scythe, visiting goats on a mountain farm, fäbod, and walking to the top of the world.

My scythe.

Making traditional messmör.

In the turning of July into August we were blessed with a blue moon and Irmelin performed at Urkult Festival in the high north. There I had the most amazing birthday celebration and enjoyed it very much to welcome a new turning point in my life.

Nämforsen stone carvings from the time of the first people.

Ylva Varik artistry.

Att vara tant är att få göra vad fan man vill.

To be an old lady is to be allowed to do what the *#-/* you want.

My antennas are up in the air. Some questions are going to be investigated.
Some lyrics are going to be written.
Some more music will be transformed from the dreamed into reality.
Some future journeys are going to be planned according to the golden map of the inner landscape.


Come rain come shine, life takes us on an unpredicted journey.
Family, friends and love.
Some endings and some beginnings.
Reunions, a break-up.

I pray our hearts continue to be tender in the sometimes hard world we live in.
Let's be curious.
Let's walk in peace.

Eva

Vätte-hår

Så vackert det är ute nu!

På marken fann jag detta fenomen, kallat "vätte-hår". Iskristaller byggs upp till ett fluff. Förr trodde man att vättarna fått bråttom när gryningen kom och att deras hår och skägg fastnat i grenar när de skyndade sig hem igen.

Morgonpromenad med hund är bland det bästa sättet man kan börja en dag på.

MUKO Sweden festival and a day of love

Irmelin did a great day yesterday, taking part in the first ever festival of MUKO Sweden. Music Collective (=MUKO) manifested ourselves for the first time.
Irmelin pictures

With a 8 band long festival including  childrens concert and whole night long row of music at Storan, Göteborg. 6 bands from our own power house of MUKO and two international acts. I especially enjoyed listening to Mikael Godee and Eve Beuvens quartet (Sweden and Belgium) and Jaron Freeman Fox and the Opposite of Everything (Canada). Sparkling energy. Deep and sensitive. Fun!

Mikael Godée & Eve Beuvens Quartet

All the other bands are super interesting too, but because Irmelin performed so much ourselves I couldn't hear everything I wanted to.


Irmelin sang in the opening ceremony of the festival, and immediately after we had to run to next gig. My friend Thomas married Cecilia and Irmelin provided with love songs and bridal march. A truly enlighted moment was to call out with our voices only in herding calls over the fields where the bride and groom walked up to their friends and family who had gathered to celebrate with them.

Yes, a long day of love indeed.

Music in all directions. Love for what we believe in.

Irmelin headed back to Göteborg and Storan Theater to get up on stage there a second time in the MUKO festival. We were carried of the support from among others the members of my choirs who came to listen. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. 

I'm happy to say we also made a statement from stage yesterday, in support and solidarity with all who stand up for mother earth and protect her from big company greed, mining companies. In solidarity with Gallok in Jokkmokk, Sweden, as well as anti-fracking movement in Canada and elsewhere. Our thoughts goes to the situation in New Brunswick in Canada where military made a crack down on unarmed peaceful protesters and shoot rubber bullets and teargas. Snipers aiming at singing and praying elders, women, children. Peaceful protesters, you have all the love and support that the corporations envy and fear so much. Your songs, drums, dances and prayers are more powerful than bullets. Put your boots on the ground, stand up for future clean nature to our children and their children.

Today I could think of resting a bit......and dream of all the goodies from yesterday.

First nations ban pipeline, Canada

Very similar to the mining situation in Gallok, Sweden. Corporations come in to exploit and then leave the local people with destroyed home and nature.

We have a right to say no!



The people have the final say.

How can we be inspired by Chief Na'moks speach?

Eva

My own fires

Last weekend of September.

I went to the forest, to the north, to the place where the stars in the sky is bright clear like sparkling ice, milky way mesmerizingly visible.

My clothes and hair is full of smoke from all the fires I made.
I’ve been writing, I’ve been reading.
I walked in the forest and picked berries for the winter.

I’ve been reminded in the fullest of how much we all have to live every day with all courage we can bring about. To live our lives deeply and lovingly. One member of the village, a middle aged man, decided to end his sorrows and find his peace in death. My thoughts goes to his family. The whole village is grieving at this loss, his big heart for animals, people, nature, theater and music. His uniqueness will be gone, but live in our memories. We cannot meet him in the local food store from now on. But what we can do is to live totally and make sure that no child or anyone will be left behind. I speak for myself and I will do my best to connect to the more silent, the few-worded personalities in the future. They have so much to tell, but it takes longer time for them to start to tell. This man carried lots of knowledge and good values.

We must create a true belonging for our young ones. Aren’t we all born to be part of a belonging? Where we will be seen and respected for who we are.

I will take this highly important message with me from my weekend in the north. Also the joy of seing the milky way and the stars, the freedom of walking in the forest, making my own fire. Tomorrow it’s the first day at my new job as youth leader in a nearby church, in the suburb of Hjällbo. This will be a golden opportunity to get in touch with our young ones in my own neighborhood, in my lovely Angered-hoods in Göteborg. The job is a part time job, 50% and I will still have many fruitful music collaborations going on. Irmelin, Myst, and my choir Lei-La plus more solo appearances.


Eva

Dreaming of summer and songs: Dalaliv

On a summer evening, leaving my house for starting a tour.
The lake where I get inspiration.

I'm glad to be in the Dalaliv-blog, where Åsa Pellas writes about creative people from and in Dalarna.
http://dalaliv.blogspot.se/2012/03/sjunger-dalavisor-och-kular.html
I was born and raised in Falun, and it's forever written in my heart: the hills and mountains of Dalarna, it's music and people, the miners heritage in Falun, the beautiful villages on the countryside.

I'm living in Göteborg, but I will forever have one foot in Dalarna, and this is my joy. To have the city life of Göteborg rushing around me, and to have the nature of Övertänger in Dalarna and to visit my family in Falun.

With love,
Eva

360° view and hight fright-lunch

Dreams are some days reality, in a very specific way. Dreams of my heart.

Säntis, one of the best hiking places to go in Switzerland. Mountains has always attracted me, they are so powerful and timeless. One word has been repeated a lot the whole day: amazing! The wonders of my life's adventure has now taken me here. I wouldn't have been here if I've never met my love.

Right on the top there's a small space for hikers to sit and enjoy the vast views. Like birds on a roof. The mountain Spitzeli sides fall steep on each side. It's having lunch under height fright, with a viwe of 360°, and side by side with my love. That's the way I like it most.
Sun was shining on the mountains the whole day, but lower lands was under the fog sea. Reminds me of one of the best chapters in Michael Ende's The never ending story.

Looking from Spitzeli towards Säntis.

To live fully 100%, that's what it's all about, isn't it?

Eva

Music of the forest: workshop in kulning

Walking out on a autumn weekend.
Songs and calls in the forest.



Susanne Rosenberg, Ulrika Bodén and me in a recordning "Vallåtar från Gammelboning".





Outdoor workshop in herding calls, plus master class in the style of folk songs for all members of Cecilia-kören. That was a new and very good way of working with a choir. Every singer had 10 minutes private lesson, some did it in master class, some did it the normal way as a singing lesson. Both ways worked out really nice. I love to work with singers!

The autumn gold surrounded us.




After the workshop on Saturday I had the pleasure to get a ride in Carins car, down cab driving to the train station. Nice!

Mera Färöarna

Utsikt från Knúkur, högsta toppen på Mykines:

Torkad fisk. Det smakar helt ok och är oerhört komprimerad näring. Men luktar som tetramin, fiskmaten som fanns för akvariefiskar i min barndom. Gul burk med brunt lock, någon mer som minns?

Fyren på Mykines.

Lunnefåglar.

Avfärd från Mykines.

Sitter nu på Vagar flygplats och väntar och väntar. P gr av vädret är alla flyg försenade. Kram från Eva.

Hem från rockabillyland

På stekhett tåg har vi idag åkt tillbaka till västkusten och lämnat vackra Övertänger för ett tag.

Jag hade kulningskurs där en dag, och här finns ett blogginlägg från en av mina kursdeltagare:
http://www.joanalderman.com/2011/06/kulnings-kurs-i-overtanger-dalarna.html
Det var en ljuvligt lagom varm dag då det doftade sommar i skogen när vi var ute och ropade. Jag blir så fylld av energi att träffa alla dessa entusiastiska kulnings-elever!

Nu ska jag bara packa om inför Herräng!

Kram, Eva