{"id":986,"date":"2021-11-19T21:56:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T21:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/?page_id=986"},"modified":"2021-11-19T22:00:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T22:00:38","slug":"rullpolska-efter-pekkos-per","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/rullpolska-efter-pekkos-per\/","title":{"rendered":"Rullpolska efter Pekkos Per"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u00a0 The\u00a0Rullpolska efter Pekkos Per\u00a0<\/strong>is a premium example of the style of playing polska in Bingsj\u00f6.\u00a0 \u00a0Bingsj\u00f6 is a very small village in rural Dalarna, but has a very rich musical tradition.<\/p>

\u00a0 Pekkos Per, the fiddler this tune is credited to, was born in Bingsj\u00f6 in 1808, and died in 1877.\u00a0 He was one of the most influential fiddlers of his time in that region.\u00a0 \u00a0Hjort Anders Olsson, the great Bingsj\u00f6 fiddler of a later generation, was said to have had fiddle instruction from Pekkos Per, though Per died when Hjort Anders was just 12 years old.<\/p>

The word “rullpolska” refers to the rapid rolling notes in the tune.\u00a0 \u00a0The technique here is not the same as in the “H\u00e4lsinge rullstr\u00e5k” in some H\u00e4lsingland Polskas.\u00a0 \u00a0(See “Pelles Rullpolska”, #51 in this list.)<\/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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The farmstead where Pekkos Per lived in Bingsj\u00f6, Pekkosg\u00e5rden, is the site of Sweden’s largest fiddle festival.\u00a0 \u00a0Held on the first Wednesday in July every year, it attracts thousands of attendees, for a while having as many as 30,000 each year.<\/p>

Remarkable to me about the Bingsj\u00f6 festival is that most people do not arrive until Wednesday, and the program, jamming, and dancing take place primarily Wednesday evening and night, but most people are gone by late morning on Thursday, without leaving tons of litter spread all over the grounds.<\/p>

\u00a0 To the left is a picture of Pekkosg\u00e5rden during the festival in 1974.<\/p>

\u00a0 Here<\/a> is a YouTube recording of some prominent Dalarna fiddlers playing Pekkos Pers Rullpolska.<\/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 The\u00a0Rullpolska efter Pekkos Per\u00a0is a premium example of the style of playing polska in Bingsj\u00f6.\u00a0 \u00a0Bingsj\u00f6 is a very small village in rural Dalarna, but has a very rich musical tradition. \u00a0 Pekkos Per, the fiddler this tune is credited to, was born in Bingsj\u00f6 in 1808, and died in 1877.\u00a0 He was one […]<\/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-986","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","wpbf-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/986","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=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/folksweden.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}