Urban Folk

The Stockholm Folk Trio is a Swedish super group in folk style music.

Gunnar Idenstam is a renowned touring concert organist and was the first-and to date, the only-musician from northern Europe to win the prestigious international competition in organ improvisation, the “Grand Prix de Chartres”. In spite of his classical background, Idenstam has always had “a love relationship from afar” with folk music and brings these influences into the context of organ music, building bridges between the French cathedral tradition, symphonic rock, and Swedish folk music.

Lisa Rydberg is a baroque violinist who has earned the title of Riksspelman, which roughly corresponds to “master folk musician”.The first person to have graduated from the Royal College of Music in Stockholm with the combination of classical and folk music, Rydberg tours regularly throughout Sweden and the rest of Europe and can be heard in constellations such as the duo LISAS and the folk music group Jul i folkton, as well as performances with Sofia Karlsson and Lena Willemark.

Gunnar and Lisa have made several productions, such as Bach på Svenska – Bach in Swedish –but on the present album, Urban Folk, they have joined forces with the percussionist Jonas Sjöblom who is featured on hundreds of albums in addition to numerous theatre and dance productions, both as a musician and as a composer.