frå folk te’ folk - Knut Kjøk, Dag Gården

Folkloristic traditions are based on the transmission of music from generation to generation. But this does not at all imply that folk music has to be static and forever unchangeable – musicians like Knut Kjøk and Dag Gården lend the term Tradition itself an entirely new meaning, as they pay equally respect to creativity and fantasy as well as re-creation and faithfulness to their musical sources. As a result an extraordinarily sincere, honest and fascinating music emerges; right through candid, truly original and refreshingly new – from people to people!

In our opinion this title expresses in many ways the essence of folk music. On their way from musician to musician, from community to community, even from country to country, the tunes have lived their own vagabond lives. They have been passed on “orally” from people to people, and they have always been just for loan. In this way they have been handed down from generation to generation. Different dialects and the skill, temperament and personality of the individual musician have contributed to forming each tune. Most of the oldest tunes we play have an unknown origin. However, we always tell whom we learned the tunes from, which is in accordance with rules of good behaviour among folk musicians.  

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