{"id":2700,"date":"2022-12-21T18:40:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T18:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/?page_id=2700"},"modified":"2022-12-21T19:02:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T19:02:11","slug":"bjorklunds-polketta","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/bjorklunds-polketta\/","title":{"rendered":"Bj\u00f6rklunds Polketta"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u00a0\u00a0Bj\u00f6rklunds Polketta<\/strong> is the unusual title for this tune.\u00a0 \u00a0Everywhere else in Sweden this kind of tune is called\u00a0\u00a0polkett<\/strong>, or “little polka”.<\/p>

The dance is similar to a polka, but using very small steps, and not involving rushing around the dance floor.<\/p>

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The tune comes to us through a fiddler named Ingemar Bj\u00f6rklund, from Alings\u00e5s in the province of V\u00e4sterg\u00f6tland.\u00a0 \u00a0It is believed that he was a relation of the Bj\u00f6rklund family of fiddlers prominent in Alings\u00e5s in the 19th century.<\/p>

Here<\/span><\/a> is a very nice video of a folkmusic group playing this tune.\u00a0 \u00a0There are several fiddles, nyckelharpor, accordions, a guitar and bass guitar, and even a flute.<\/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

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To the left is a video of me playing\u00a0Bj\u00f6rklunds Polketta<\/strong>.<\/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\u00a0Bj\u00f6rklunds Polketta is the unusual title for this tune.\u00a0 \u00a0Everywhere else in Sweden this kind of tune is called\u00a0\u00a0polkett, or “little polka”. The dance is similar to a polka, but using very small steps, and not involving rushing around the dance floor. \u00a0 The tune comes to us through a fiddler named Ingemar Bj\u00f6rklund, from […]<\/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-2700","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","wpbf-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2700","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=2700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}