{"id":1101,"date":"2021-12-03T02:38:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T02:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/?page_id=1101"},"modified":"2021-12-03T02:40:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T02:40:32","slug":"vals-fran-norra-rada","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/vals-fran-norra-rada\/","title":{"rendered":"Vals fr\u00e5n Norra R\u00e5da"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u00a0\u00a0This\u00a0Vals fr\u00e5n Norra R\u00e5da<\/strong> is a favorite waltz of many players of V\u00e4rmland music.\u00a0 R\u00e5da is a small town on the river\u00a0Klar\u00e4lven<\/strong> near the town of Hagfors.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

Carl-Johan Bj\u00f6rklund was born there in 1862.\u00a0 \u00a0Son of a fiddler, he was the only one of 14 siblings who learned to play.\u00a0 A remarkable man, he learned most of his tunes by ear from his father and other fiddlers.\u00a0 \u00a0He taught himself to read music, and was able to leave a large inheritance of written fiddle music for posterity.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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If you meet any fiddlers in V\u00e4rmland, this is one tune they will be sure to know.\u00a0 \u00a0It is also played in other parts of Sweden because of its beauty.<\/p>

Here<\/a> is a YouTube video featuring the Vals fr\u00e5n Norra R\u00e5da played on fiddle and accordion.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0This\u00a0Vals fr\u00e5n Norra R\u00e5da is a favorite waltz of many players of V\u00e4rmland music.\u00a0 R\u00e5da is a small town on the river\u00a0Klar\u00e4lven near the town of Hagfors.\u00a0\u00a0 Carl-Johan Bj\u00f6rklund was born there in 1862.\u00a0 \u00a0Son of a fiddler, he was the only one of 14 siblings who learned to play.\u00a0 A remarkable man, he learned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1101","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","wpbf-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}