Fredy Clue performs solo and in duo with Julia Bengtson on fiddle and vocals, among other collaborations. On stage they craft immersive experiences combining music, tradition, storytelling and folk art.

Fredy is also the project manager behind Sweden’s first gender neutral traditional folk costume–a project that gained international attention putting Clue on the map as one of Sweden’s most innovative folk artists in any genre. The folk costume Bäckadräkten is now
on display in two permanent exhibitions in Sweden – Röhsska Museum of Design and Craft and Kulturen Historic Museum.

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– Antti-J Janka-Murros, Kansanmusiikki Magazine

Teho. is a Finnish power-fiddle duo that explodes musical boundaries while having roots deeply in the tradition. Teho’s fiddlers grew up in Central Ostrobothnia, Finland – an area known for its extremely virile and rich folk music life.

Their music combines fluently Finnish traditional fiddling, Norwegian Halling, Swedish Polska, Bebop, Western Swing, and contemporary folk music. Improvisation also plays a big part of the duo’s sound. Tero Hyväluoma and Esko Järvelä are both top-notch names in the Nordic folk music field and cross-over freelancers without genre boundaries. They have played together for years in various different bands and projects, including one of the most well known Finnish folk bands, Frigg. Teho.’s debut album was nominated for a Finnish Grammy (Emma Awards) in 2018. 

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Andrew Wells-Oberegger is a Canadian composer, musical arranger, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He has been professionally involved in the early and world music scenes for over twenty years and is known for his mastery of an impressive variety of instruments such as classical guitar, renaissance lute, oud, bagpipes, saz, mandolin, bouzouki and santoor. Relying on a solid academic training coupled with his knowledge of international musical traditions gained through master classes, he adds singing as well as playing various flutes and three singular types of percussion —daff, req and Italian tamburello — to the extended list of his possibilities. 

He was featured on more than twenty albums with various ensembles including La Nef, La Mandragore, ESEM, Cercamon, De Lònga and La Strada. Many of the projects bearing his signature have also been awarded or nominated for the ADISQ gala, the Opus Awards and the Canadian Folk Music Award.

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The release of their second album, Ode & Ballade, released in 2024 has sent them touring the globe once again across North America and Scandinavia, selling out venues and making new friends and fans wherever they go. This acclaimed album comprises stories of medieval saints and sacred wells, fair maidens outsmarting presumptuous knights, beautiful or boisterous drinking songs, thieves meeting their fate, heartbreaking love songs, and groovy dance tunes. CBC Music, Robert Rowat gave this advice: “If you’re lucky enough to have a cottage to escape to when the warm weather hits, take this album with you.” And Leslie Barcza wrote: “I think it speaks for itself, the musicianship, the powerful invocation of times gone by. The whole CD is magical like that, sometimes in Swedish sometimes French, sometimes English.”

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Since its formation in 2005, Kongero has toured the world (Europe, North America, and Asia) and released five studio albums. Their music has been sampled, appeared in movie productions, and recorded on a Naxos gold compilation album. In 2021, bandleader Emma Björling was named a “folk Hero” with the Swedish Folk Music Awards.

Kongero are also highly sought-after for their skillful workshops and outreach activities encompassing traditional Swedish vocal music and vocal harmonies. They’ve also released two song books with some of their most appreciated workshop material.

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FRIXX was their first album since 2017’s Frost on Fiddles — Songlines ‘Top of the World’ album, and 2012’s highly acclaimed Polka V — Finnish Folk Album of the Year and a nominee for the Teosto Prize. This prestigious award is handed out annually by Finnish composers — recognizing the fact that Frigg almost exclusively perform their own infectious original tunes. 2023 brought us the acclaimed album Heritage, steeped in Finnish folk roots.

25 years of fiddling around the globe, eleven albums, about a thousand gigs in thirty countries, and tens of thousands of kilometers later, that same passion still burns. The hypnotic combination of the violin sound, which has already become a concept, and the irresistibly pounding ringing of string instruments and the pulse of the double bass, continues to create its banks like a slowly flowing spring hill stream, the source of which is precisely known.

Their passion and enthusiasm still fuels Frigg, and the band continues its upward trajectory toward its 25th anniversary in 2025, promising a twelfth album and much new and delightful content!

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