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Rickard Näslin

Rickard Näslin (born 24 September 1947 in Östersund) is a Swedish musician based in Jämtland, Sweden. He is a violinist and composer of Swedish folk music. Näslin was a founding member of the folk

Rickard Näslin (born 24 September 1947 in Östersund) is a Swedish musician based in Jämtland, Sweden. He is a violinist and composer of Swedish folk music. Näslin was a founding member of the folk music group Leikstulaget in 1974, and established the Östersunds Spelmanslag (Fiddle Company of Ostersund) in 1993. He was honoured with the title of riksspelman (Swedish for ‘National Spelman’) in 1978 and the Lapp-Nils Medal in 1998. References Jones, Petra: Jämtland (Sweden) Forest, Fjörds, and Fiddles, in Fiddler Magazine (Fall 2006) External links * *Jamtlandica.com Folk Music from Jämtland, Sweden with tunes in MP3 to download Listen to Rickard Näslin’s compositions *Jeanettes brudvals This tune in note form *Schottis från Rödon This tune in note form *Görels vals *Farbror Olles Ganglat Rickard Näslin (violin) and Göran Andersson (violin) play Lapp-Nils songs from Western Jämtland: *Lapp-Nils polska, after Johan Olofsson Munter Mattmar *Lapp-Nils polska, after Bengt Bixo Mörsil

Era
Post-War
Lived
1947–present
From
Sweden
Born in
Frösö församling
Known as
fiddler, composer
Instruments
violin, fiddle

Contemporaries

Composers of the same nationality whose working lives overlapped — computed across all 11,984 dated composers in this library, not taken from any single article.