Erik Pekkari

A master of both row diatonic accordion, zither and fiddle, Erik Pekkari has remained focused on the original music, gemmeldansmusik, of Sweden. His single recording, Hogtryck, paid homage towards the carrying on impact of Swedish folk musician, Carl Jularbo (1893 – 1966). Relating to Swedish journal, Gotesborgs – Posten, Pekkari is definitely “another good exemplory case of youthful Swedish music artists who, within an exemplary method, spread our history of traditional music.”Because the past due-1990s, Pekkari offers performed inside a trio that he stocks with fiddlers Bengt Lofberg and Pelle Bjornlert. Critiquing the trio’s recording, Mikaelidansen, released in early 2000, RootsWorld published, “this trio of expert musical craftsmen merges a formal, nearly traditional dance, sensibility with a power and periodic wit that few traditional music artists ever discover.”Given birth to in Pitea, a little village close to the Arctic Group, Pekkari studied accordion in Framn’s University of Music because the age group of seven. He presently resides in the southern Swedish town of Linkoping.