Nykken concert with awesome instruments
Mom was late coming to pick me up from work, so we missed about the first 20 minutes of the Nykken concert - but I found parking that was both free and nearby, and they did let us in once we found the correct door, and it was a very small audience but very fun music. List of instruments, in order from "I think this is pretty normal" up the spectrum of unusual to "as far as we know there is only one of these" (normally there would also be an accordion, but it is being held hostage at the accordion hospital; we signed a get-well card for it):
-normal fiddle
-normal cello (albeit a bit blonder than most)
-djembe (totally appropriate for Swedish music, yes? yes. why the heck not.)
-harp (Dusty 36)
-nyckleharpa (2 of them)
-hardingfele (or Hardanger fiddle)
-cittra (Swedish zither)
-Hardanger cello (sooo pretty)
And we managed to get them all down the stairs in one trip afterwards! It was lucky that Verlene's car was close; we were all carrying a ton of stuff.
-normal fiddle
-normal cello (albeit a bit blonder than most)
-djembe (totally appropriate for Swedish music, yes? yes. why the heck not.)
-harp (Dusty 36)
-nyckleharpa (2 of them)
-hardingfele (or Hardanger fiddle)
-cittra (Swedish zither)
-Hardanger cello (sooo pretty)
And we managed to get them all down the stairs in one trip afterwards! It was lucky that Verlene's car was close; we were all carrying a ton of stuff.