We are gathering here the Northern Streams Kist (or ‘treasure hoard’) of archive and new material reflecting Scottish and Nordic music, song and dance – especially from the people who have taken part in the festival.

The online content will continue to be available after the Festival weekend so please feel free to watch it when you can or more than once! 

All of this ‘content’ is free but if you would like to give a donation to help this and future Northern Streams Festivals of Nordic & Scottish music, song & dance happen – please click on the Tickets/Donations page above for details on how you can do so!

We expect to be adding to the number of these videos through our ‘Northern Streams Kist’ project over the next few months so it will be worth revisiting the website on occasion .

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Please enjoy!

Concerts

Archive Concert Links went live at 7.30pm on 22 April 2022

Northern Streams 2018 Concert Excerpt featuring:

Peter Puma Hedlund – nyckelharpa (keyed fiddle) player from Sweden

Paul Anderson – one of Scotland’s top fiddlers and Shona Donaldson – fiddler & Scots singer from North East Scotland

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Northern Streams 2019 Concert Excerpt featuring:

EPK – Jocelyn Pettit (fiddler, singer & stepdancer), Rav Sira (guitarist) & Ellen Gira (cellist) – a trio of top young musicians studying in Scotland, from Canada, Norway and the USA, who enjoy playing both Nordic and Scottish music.

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Workshops

Workshop Links went live at 11.00am on 23 April 2022

Workshop with Ditte Fromseier and Sigurd Hockings with their tune Raw Rhubarb. Find out about the story behind the tune’s name and then learn how to play it! See the Artists 2023 page for more details about Ditte & Sigurd.

Download a pdf of the sheet music here: Rå Rabarber/Raw Rhubarb by Fromseier & Hockings

Workshop with fiddler Paul Sinclair from The Låtmores duo with a tune called ‘Rallarsvingen’ by Jonna Lankinen. Hear Paul play it and then learn how to play it! 

Download a pdf of the sheet music here: Rallarsvingen by J Lankinen

Workshop with Janeta Österberg from The Låtmores duo with a tune called ‘Menuett Från Oravais’. Hear Janeta play it and then learn how to play it!

Download a pdf of the sheet music here: Menuett-Från-Oravais

See the Artists 2023 page for more details about The Låtmores – Paul and Janeta

Coming soon

Scandi Session celebrating 2022 World Nykelharpa Day

in the Lounge Bar of Teviot Student Union

Artists featuring in the online content are:

CONCERTS

EPK From the West Coast of Canada, Jocelyn Pettit is an award-winning fiddle player, stepdancer, singer, and composer. With grace and passion, she has performed across Canada, and toured in the USA, the UK, and Europe. She has been featured on Canadian national television and radio, and shared the stage with The Battlefield Band (Scotland), The Chieftains (Ireland), and Carlos Núñez (Spain). As a recording artist, Jocelyn has two self-produced albums, both nominated for multiple awards, including “World Artist of the Year” at the 2017 Western Canadian Music Awards, and at the 2016 Canadian Folk Music Awards. FolkWorld Magazine described Jocelyn as “A top-notch musician, and major emerging talent.”

Rav Sira on guitar, bodhran and vocals hails from Norway. He is an accomplished multi-instrumentalist who has performed in Scandinavia, Europe and South America, including Festival Brocante in Italy, and Sentrum Scene in Norway. He has pursued World Music studies at Codarts University for the Arts in Holland, and spent a year studying Latin American music in Salvador, Brazil.

Ellen Gira on cello and vocals is a seasoned perfomer who has appeared at special events and prominent venues throughout the USA and the UK, including The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, and Cadogan Hall in London, England. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Scottish Music at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and earned her Bachelor’s degree in Cello Performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music (Cleveland, Ohio, USA). https://jocelynpettit-trio.blogspot.com

Paul Anderson is one of the finest Scots fiddlers of his generation. During his competitive career, Paul won most of the traditional fiddle championships in Scotland and in 1995 won Scotland’s premier fiddling event, the Glenfiddich Scottish fiddle championship, which was until recently, held each year at Blair Castle. He is part of a teaching lineage which stretches right back to before 1745 and the time of Gow. Consequently, Paul is a highly-regarded tutor and as well as solo tuition has led workshops and master classes from Aberdeen to Australia and from Banff to British Columbia.

Paul has toured extensively and recorded eight solo albums and over forty albums with artists like Pallas, Rock Salt and Nails, The Cutting Edge and the Banchory Strathspey and Reel Society. A regular on Scottish TV and radio, in 2011 he presented a series of features on traditional Scottish music and song for the BBC Scotland programme, ‘Landward’. He was seen in the film remake of Whisky Galore – wielding his fiddle at a ceilidh! He also is a composer of some repute, having composed over 300 pieces in the Scots style and published some in the Lochnagar Collection (available from The Highland Music Trust www.highlandmusictrust.org ) as well as has collated other collections of previously unpublished and out of print fiddle repertoire from the north-east of Scotland, with partners such as the Highland Music Trust, Taigh-na-Teud,  the Elphinstone Institute and Greentrax recordings. He has also written articles and given talks and lectures on the subject.  http://www.paulandersonscottishfiddler.com

Peter Puma Hedlund is considered Sweden’s leading traditional player of the modern chromatic nyckelharpa, having won the title World Champion twice, in 1992 and 2000. He earned the designation, ‘Riksspelman’ – Fiddler of the Realm – while still in his teens (1975) through receiving the Zorn Silver Medal. In 2010 he received the Zorn Gold Medal – recognised as the highest honour Sweden can bestow on an artist – awarded by Svenska Folkdansringen, the Swedish national organisation for traditional music, dance and handicraft.

Peter is proud of the strong musical tradition and heritage that nurtured him as he grew up in Uppland, learning directly from the old masters – especially Peter’s primary inspiration and teacher – the legendary Eric Sahlström. He is a greatly sought after teacher on a global scale and has influenced all of the younger generation of nyckelharpa players. He was chosen as the Patron of The World Fiddle Day 2017 and lives with his wife Karin and their two sons, Jonas and Mathias, in Iste, Hälsingland (about a four-hour drive north of Stockholm). http://www.peterhedlund.com/eng/index.php

Shona Donaldson is originally from Huntly but now living near Tarland in Aberdeenshire with husband, Paul Anderson. She is one of Scotland’s leading traditional singers. In 2009 she was voted ‘Scots Singer of the Year’ at the BBC Alba Trad Music Awards and in 2016 she became the first woman ever to win the coveted ‘Bothy Ballad Champion of Champions’. She was also a finalist in the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year and took part in the TMSA Young Trad Tour of winners and finalists from the competition in 2004.

Shona has sung on a number of recordings including an album of the works of Robert Burns in Scots and Gaelic and her solo album, ‘Short Nichts and Lang Kisses’. She performs regularly at home and abroad and guests and has been a guest at festivals like Celtic Connections, Keith Folk Festival (TMSA), Orkney Folk Festival, Cullerlie Traditional Singing Weekend, Willie Clancy Week (County Clare, Ireland) and the Rudolstadt International Folk Festival.

WORKSHOPS

Fromseier & Hockings – This Scandinavian folk duo Fromseier & Hockings come from the tiny village Øksendrup in Denmark where they also run a small organic orchard and cidery.  https://www.fromseierhockings.com/

The Låtmores – Paul Sinclair (fiddle) and Janeta Österberg (accordion) – a Scottish/Finnish duo with a mix of traditional and modern folk tunes including ones they expect people to dance to…https://www.facebook.com/the.latmores

Brian O’hEadhra, Fiona Mackenzie & family – with songs and tunes from the ‘Northlands’ – Scotland and Scandinavia – based on their recent album – https://www.brian-fionnag.com/ – video coming soon!