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

I have opened a web-shop

Welcome to my web site www.evarune.se where you can order your copy of my brand new CD Vida.

I'm deeply grateful for the big interest I've seen so far. Thank you all who has bought the cd and thank you for beautiful words about what you feel about my music :-)

164 SEK including shipping within Sweden.
Shipping abroad depends on where you are.

12 newly composed songs with my own lyrics.

Just a coincident, or not?
On the same day of the release of Vida I got a letter from SA, with Nelson Mandela stamp and all. My pen pal Paul Hanmer is one of the long time friends who have inspired me to step up and compose and record, release my own album. During many years we have send music and letters to each other, toured and made concerts in both South Africa and Sweden, composed and recorded together.

Home stage in the middle of the hoods.

In just two weeks I will launch my new CD "Vida".

The place this will happen is a great gift itself, I'm getting the sense it's now becoming my home.
A second home or a home stage.
A place where it's easy to feel at home.
Hjällbo church is in the center of the hoods.
A church right in the middle of the street life, at the local square.

This fine space helps us all open to inner space.
The name "Vida" have a connection to the swedish word for space: vidder.

Soon time to let the boat set sail.

Eva

Norway, August 2014. Irmelin tour.

Welcome 2015 with all your adventures in music

A new year has just begun.
First of all I want to thank you all my readers, you who visit my blog.
I truly wish you a beautiful year and lets all pull our forces together for
a year of more tolerance and love in the world.
Music, dance and story telling makes the world go around.
I know so many beautiful initiatives, activists,
thinkers and peace makers all around the globe
to make me want to contribute also what I can bring on the train.

One thing is to celebrate truly who we are and
be daring in creativity.
I've decided to fully live my dream of releasing
a solo album.

It's getting closer and closer,
the launch of my new cd, Vida.
February 12 in Göteborg,
please come to celebrate with me in Hjällbo church.


I just heard some music on the radio that makes me so happy.
For the first time to me, I found this gem of new jazz, Chlopy Kontra Basia.
The pure happiness of language, without knowing the meaning of the lyrics,
I just love the sounds.




Chlopcy Kontra Basia - Oj Tak


Got to keep on working now, the day is bright and  I have lots to plan and organize. 
Final steps of the cover and textbook of my CD. 

Eva

Evas julklappstips 2014

Hej julklappstider!
Vi ska nog komma överens i år igen.

Jag väljer gärna att stötta lokala små företag, artister, konsthantverkare och konstnärer.
Eller önskar mig såna julklappar.

Vill gärna dela med mig av några idéer och inriktningar.
Stötta lilla lanthandeln istället för stora varuhuset.
Köp mathantverk och varor direkt hos bonden.
För er som bor i Falun/Enviken, köp julklappar hos Pia i Övertänger.
Högt på min önskelista står en påse med förbrukningsvaror (te, kaffe, kryddor, torrvaror, choklad....) från Handlarn i Övertänger. Bästa service, bra sortiment, bästa knutpunkten i byn. Oumbärligt för de äldre.

I vår globala värld finns också jättefina möjligheter att bidra till att minska fattigdom.
Köp fair trade.
Jag har hittat ett jättespännande företag, Sseko i Uganda som tillverkar så fina skor, väskor, armband,  med jätteviktigt manifest.

En favorit, köp julklappar second hand för att inte bidra till klimatpåfrestningar. 

Anna-Lena Dancy koppar och pralinfat.

Göteborg: Anna-Lena Dancy keramik
Handdrejat är underbara julklappar. Vackra koppar, sköna i handen.
Hennes hemsida hittar du här.

Göteborg: Lohrs PocketMedMera. Deras hemsida hittar du här.
Böcker är underbara julklappar! Läs bra böcker, ställ stora frågor.
Välj att stötta en liten bokhandel fri från de stora bokkedjornas kedjor. En oberoende, privatägd bokhandel.
Här finns mycket mer än böcker, som t ex författaraftnar, utställningar av lokala konstnärer, gött kaffe.
Personlig service. En oas vid Landala torg i Göteborg.

Köp cds av dina favoritmusiker.
Se gärna om de har egna hemsidor där du kan beställa deras cd.
Eller finns utgivna på skivbolag som säljer fysiska ex.
Det är absolut det bästa sättet att stötta den artist du gillar.
Ersättningen från spotify är minimalistiskt låg.

Min sångbok Bröllopssånger och kärleksvisor.
En användbar bok med radikalt kärleksfullt innehåll.
För vardag och fest.
Vackert formgiven av Gabriella Persson.
Beställ av mig via epost info@evarune.se

Sseko Design, hemsidan hittar du här.
Skor, väskor, schalar, armband producerade av kvinnor på väg in i universitetsstudier.
Ett fenomenalt projekt att säkra att de drivna unga kvinnorna kan fullfölja sina drömmar
om högre utbildning och en väg in i yrkesliv med rätt lön och arbetsvillkor.
Se filmen: 



Att ge bort upplevelser, inspiration, nya kunskaper är också väldigt uppskattat.

Göteborg: Körsång i kören Lei-La.
Sjung i kör, utan noter, öppet för alla som vill sjunga folkmusik med mig.
12 tisdagar per termin. Ca en konsert per termin.
Vår kör-blogg hittar du här.

Göteborg: Lektioner i Alexanderteknik.
Barbro Olsson på youtube här.
Och hemsidan hittar du
här.

Göteborg: Lektioner i basal kroppskännedom.
Full av kraft. 

Christina Fors håller kurser du kan läsa om här.

Eva

Exited to share happy news!

Happy news on the first of December!
I wish to give a big THANK YOU to Swedish Arts Council for the support I've been honoured for my upcoming solo-album in hard competition with many a fine music project. I am totally filled with joy for this. It's highly appreciated, so thank you thank you!

The music is recorded together with Mattias Pèrez on guitars and Anders Jormin on double base in October at Studio Epidemin. Petter Eriksson is our sound man.
My own compositions, my lyrics, and a wave of inspiration and musical ideas shared among the three of us. Thank you Mattias and Anders for bringing in your voices in the swirl.

We are so exited to share it all with you!
Stay tuned for more.

Eva

Mattias Pèrez at Epidemin in October.

Recording mood at Studio Epidemin in October.

Voicing - meeting - sharing - circle Folk Voice Tradition 2014

Giving and taking in its most beautiful form. Mutual inspiration!

Folk Voice Tradition 2014

On the last day of our conference we did reflections and circle talking about how to proceed. How can we build stronger circles and voice the tacit knowledge we share? Very empowering! Wordsmith and painting artist Malin Sverige showed us beautiful paintings she created in our conference, her reflection. When her pictures was displayed the whole room started to sing in a collective improvisation.

I wonder how this could be possible in any other conference?

The past weekend I spend time in Stockholm with an amazing gathering of the tribe of folk singers. I'm been awestruck by the power and creativity, filled with new inspiration.

Reunion of friends I've known since many years. Friends from my time as student at KMH (Royal College of Music) Friends from the first ever, the glorious, the turning point: Ethno -90.
Irmelin songsisters, great to be here all the three of us!

And happy to make new friends!

We had to use english as the official language since we speake so many languages in this group and not all of us share the same language root. Finnish, Latvian, Estonian and Scandinavian languages.

I have to say that listening to the songs I couldn't follow the lyrics was maybe the most memorable for me in the concerts. Music has the power to take a grip even if there's no common language. Music is the common language and it speaks clearly about what it is to be a human.

A warm big THANK YOU to Susanne Rosenberg and the crew for empowering the diverse family of singers, storytellers, artists, holistic improvisators.

Eva

Sitting on the train up to Stockholm, enjoying the November peace. Working on the order of songs for my new album.

KMH, The Royal College of Music in Stockholm. Old meets new.

Singers from Sibelius Academy in Helsinki in a song of lamentation.

Singers from Latvia, amazing vocal traditions!