Frifot is a Swedish

Sweden

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 folk music

Folk music

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 trio which was formed in 1987. Its members are Lena Willemark

Lena Willemark

Lena Willemark is a Swedish traditional music fiddler, singer, and composer.For several decades Willemark has been widening her scope through collaborations with jazz musicians and other artists...

, Per Gudmundson

Per Gudmundson

Per Gudmundson is a Swedish folk musician. He plays the fiddle and has also been instrumental in the revival of the Swedish bagpipes in Swedish folk music together with instrument maker Leif Eriksson....

 and Ale Möller

Ale Möller

Ale Möller is a Swedish musician and composer.He was born and grew up in Scania in southern Sweden and started in music as a jazz trumpet player...

. When it was first formed, the group called themselves Möller, Willemark & Gudmundson; the name Frifot, literally footloose, comes from the lyrics of one of the songs they play. Over the years, the trio's members have also had solo careers and performed with other groups, but Frifot has never ceased to exist as a group. Their fifth full-length CD was released in October, 2007.

The trio has toured in a number of countries including Poland

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, Great Britain

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, Germany

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, France

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, Italy

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, Japan

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, USA and India

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, as well as the Nordic countries

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. Their CD Sluring received the Grammis

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 award for best folk music album in 2003.

Members

Lena Willemark, vocals, violin, wooden flute

Per Gudmundson, violin, Swedish bagpipes

Swedish bagpipes

Swedish bagpipes are a variety of bagpipes from Sweden. The term itself generically translates to "bagpipes" in Swedish, but is used in English to describe the specifically Swedish bagpipe from the Dalarna region.-History:...

, vocals

Ale Möller, mandola

Mandola

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, droneflute, wooden flute, shawm

Shawm

The shawm was a medieval and Renaissance musical instrument of the woodwind family made in Europe from the 12th century until the 17th century. It was developed from the oriental zurna and is the predecessor of the modern oboe. The body of the shawm was usually turned from a single piece of wood,...

, harmonic

Harmonic

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, low whistle

Low whistle

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, willow flute

Willow flute

The willow flute, also known as sallow flute , is a Scandinavian folk flute, or whistle, consisting of a simple tube with a transverse fipple mouthpiece and no finger holes...

, hammered dulcimer

Hammered dulcimer

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, folkharp, vocals

Discography

Frifot, 1991 (as Möller, Willemark & Gudmundson)

Järven, 1996

Frifot, 1999

Summer Song, 1999 (compilation album)

Sluring, 2003

Flyt, 2007