It
started sixty years ago.
If
music be the food of love….play on!
Ljungbacka is a small and quaint farmlet below Ryssberget in southern
Blekinge, close to Sölvesborg, to be precise Knubbasliden 45, Ebbalycke,
Gammalstorp.
I,
Stefan Sigfalk – Sandberg, spent many years of a happy childhood on
Ljungbacka which belonged to my mother’s parents Anton and Klara
Sandberg. Anton and Klara had 10 children on Ljungbacka, 8 of which grew
to reach adult age. Anton was a master on his Magdeburg accordion and my
childhood’s midsummer nights with dancing around the decorated pole to
granddad’s accordion music are a living memory to me. I became a
musician myself later, moved abroad early and have spent most of my life
playing folk music around Europe and New Zealand. When we were children,
we built stages on Ljungbacka and performed various things that we had
practised to the villagers who wanted to come. We took 25 öre gate
money and those that stood on the small hill across the road and watched
us over the fence didn’t have to pay. Those
were two simply carpented stages that were built in our childhood’s
summers sixty years ago.
2010
I was given the opportunity to buy Ljungbacka back from a Danish family
that had spent numerous years with softly renovating it back to its
former glory. In
the summer 2011, I spent three weeks building the third Ljungbacka stage
together with three professional stage carpenters. Beautiful like a red
traditional cottage with white corners and small paned sash windows it
represents my childhood’s dream. 2012 there was grass again on the
fields around the stage where the forest had reclaimed the land during a
whole generation. Under the big oak tree, Ljungbacka
was going to get its very own folk music festival!
Sunday
21 Juli 2013!
Then the very first Ljungbacka music day took place. 300 guests honoured
us with their presence in Ebbalycke on this warmest day of summer.
We had spontaneous sessions under the chestnut tree by the road
and in the garden in front of the house. The house was also open for all
musicians and listeners. The big stage offered great performances, both
from booked groups and spontaneous musicians who wanted to perform on
stage.
Sunday
20. July 2014!
This was the day for the second festival. On stage we had Asa Jinder,
riksspelman, Jonas Otter, Swedish champion in country, Anna Neah Deutgen,
a treasured and prominent Swedish singer, Eoli, string quartett from
Malmö conservatoire, the Skatelöv Folk-Fiddlers, the Sigfalk family
and many others. We welcomed 400 visitors on this beautiful day!
Sunday
19. July 2015
The third festival with, amongst others, CajsaStina Akerström,
Elin-Louise & Gustav, Briggen Tre Bröder, Peo Hallberg and Irish
Pitch was very successful with 600 visitors! We organised a further
parking field and more toilets for 2016!
Sunday
24. July 2016
The fourth festival. We didn't think that we could top the line-up of
2015 but we did....we had a great and well visited festival, again with
top musicians. The highlights ofcourse Tim Collins and Gary Shannon from
Ireland, they also led a late night session in front of the house that
will never be forgotten! Michael Magnusson, Naomi, Fia & Gunnar,
B.A.R.K., Bortanvind, Peo Hallberg and Kringel with riksspelman Karin Nordberg all
performed great music! The weather was perfect for the fourth time.
Sunday
23. July 2017
The fifth festival, this year with a new carpented wooden dance floor in
front of the stage. Ofcourse it was opened by a traditional dance
group with traditional costumes, Asarums danslag. The Bow Triplets,
my own band with members from Ireland and Germany performed as did
Gunnel Mauritzon from Gotland.
Sunday
22. July 2018
The sixth festival with Dönaberga band, all Swedish champions
Nils Wiberg and the brothers Pär and Torbjörn Näsbom from Switzerland
and the far north of Sweden.
That year we introduced childrens dances on our hexagonal dance stage.
Many other musicians contributed to yet another very enjoyable festival.
Irish Pitch finished the 2018 festival with a great concert of Irish
traditional music and the newly erected musician's lounge proved to be
very popular.
The weather was so warm that we had
less visitors than other years but our club ended up with a financial
plus anyway.
Sunday 21. July 2019.
The seventh festival with musicians like; Jenny Almsenius, who was
awarded the Cornelis-prize for young songwriters 2018 and most
definitely a rising star, the Näsbom brothers were so popular that they
had to promise they'd come again for the second summer. Many more
contributed to another great
festival. Ofcourse there was dancing again on our open air dance
stage and dancing for children. Briggen Tre Bröder finished the
programme. We were happy to get by without a financial loss also this
year.
2020
and 2021
Cancelled because of covid.
Sunday 24. July 2022
The eighth festival with another great line up! Gitte
Pålsson with her Bolivian band Khala Uma is performing Swedish and
Bolivian folkmusic and Bülows kvartett plays folkmusic from Dalarna
with jazz influence. The quartett Naomi And The Sub Collective from
Portugal and Switzerland plays Reggae. Swedish master fiddler
(Zorn) Nils Wiberg will give a concert and Peo will lead the music quiz.
Briggen Tre Bröder trio will finish the programme again this summer and
the Asarum dance
group is also going to be there for yet another traditional dance show.
Sunday
23. July 2023
Last summers festival was a terrific sucsess and the audience stayed
onto the very finish at 9.30 pm.
This summers nineth festival should also be a great experience for all
our visitors from far and near. Our programme promises entertainment
that you will remember for a long time. We hope for decent weather and
then nothing shoud be in the way for a lovely nineth festival. Looking
forward to seing you there.
Be
most welcome on Sunday the 23.th of Juli 2023 and the warmest
musical greetings from Stefan Sigfalk – Sandberg
and all of us in "Ljungbacka's Friends"
Contakt: bowtriplets@shlink.ch
ph: 0041 79 216 70 04
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