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Emma Reid was brought up in the north-east of England and started playing the fiddle at the age of three with her Swedish mother. At eighteen she moved to Stockholm to study Swedish folk music performance with Ellika Frisell and Sven Ahlbäck at the Royal College of Music, graduating in 2003. Emma has also completed a Masters degree in Music at Newcastle University. Emma tours and teaches regularly in Scandinavia and Britain. As well as performing solo she works extensively in several duos and is a member of the groups Methera, Ditt Ditt Darium, Malin Foxdal Band and Tandoori Hill. She often collaborates with storytellers and dancers, and is currently in a production of Vintergatan together with Swedish storyteller Mats Rehnman. In 2005 Emma released her debut solo album Snake Bow and she has since released new albums each year and set up an acoustic concert series at Izzy Young's Folklore Centre in Stockholm. "Two of of my foremost sources of musical inspiration are the Bingsjö fiddler Nils Agenmark (1915-1994) and the Orsa fiddler Gössa Anders Andersson (1878-1963) - Nils with his continuous, ornamented tone; Gössa with his swinging, unpretentious style. The musical painting of myself is a culmination of the inspirations and influences of several tradition bearers, my Swedish heritage, my upbringing with jigs and reels in the north-east of England, the musicians I've met, the thoughts that have lingered..." Reviews High resolution photo
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