Polska efter Jänisas Lasse

This Polska efter Jänisas Lasse is a simple bondpolska from Årsunda, in Gästrikland.   

I heard it on my first trip to Sweden in 1974, played by my Swedish fiddling mentor, Stig Sjödin.

A bondpolska, “farmer polska”, is a straightforward 8th-note polska.  

 

 

To the left is a video of me playing it.