This time Steve Harrison has come up with a rather unusual arrangement for Classic Banjo.

Some may know that along with the banjo Steve also plays accordion and I has a special liking for traditional Scandinavian music.

This is an arrangement of two traditional Danish hopsas…  What is a Hopsa you ask?

Well, here is one:

A Hopsa is a popular Danish old-time dance, which Steve tells me involves much leaping into the air!

They are played in a 2/4 rhythm and often at a fast tempo. Steve wondered what they would sound like on banjo so here they are. They crack along at a fair old pace and sound good within seconds!

 

I have added the score to the MUSIC LIBRARY and you can listen to a piano version of Steve’s score here: 

SOERENEN AND TATER HOPSAS

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I find the Scandinavian trad. music a bit more interesting than the Celtic stuff which tends to get a bit samey after a while. The two hopsas work quite well on the banjo and I may have a go at a few more in time.

http://spillefolk.dk/ 

Although not really banjo related, this website is an excellent source of traditional Scandinavian music and some of you may want to have a listen..select nodesamling and then find noder to get to the tunes....Steve.

I play some Finnish polkas clawhammer style, and they work amazingly well.  I'll put up our recording of it tonight on soundcloud.  The first one, "Kuppari Eeva", was done by the great Irish fiddler Kevin Burke;  he just calls in Finnish Polka though.

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