Welcome to RadioFolk.dk’s podcast, Folk Live, my name is Morten Alfred Høirup and in this edition of the podcast, we will be featuring the band Maja Kjær si Orkester in a concert recorded at the famous Danish Tønder Festival that runs the last weekend of August every year.

Maja Kjær is a Danish fiddler and composer who has been touring Europe, Australia, the USA and Canada, amongst others, solo, and in different musical constellations, playing traditional as well as new music.

She is an enterprising musician with a great desire to create new music, and new concert formats.

Maja Kjær si Orkester - meaning ‘Maja Kjær’s Orchestra’, in a dialect from Jutland in Denmark - is a new band consisting of the following musicians: 

Maja Kjær Jacobsen and Signe Kierkegaard Schmidt on fiddles, George Mihalache on cymbalom, Jacob Hee Lund on percussion and Rasmus Svale on Tuba.

The band just released their debut album, named ‘Landing’, containing tunes that Maja did compose during the last 18 years. But now it is time for us to join Maja Kjær si Orkester’s concert, and the first tune is called Nordmanden.

You will find much more info at www.majakjaersiorkester.dk/ 

This concert was recorded and mixed by Peter Hellesøe, and my name is Morten Alfred Høirup. Thank you for listening!