Welcome to RadioFolk.dk’s podcast, Folk Live. In this edition of the podcast, we will be featuring the duo Svøbsk in a concert recorded at the famous Danish Tønder Festival that runs the last weekend of August every year.

Maren Halberg on accordion and Jørgen Dickmeiss on violin, guitar and vocals, has been performing together for more than 20 years, and they have been touring in countries like Germany, Østrig, Sweden, Norway, Island, Greenland, and India with their mix of traditional and original music. In 2023, they received a Danish Music Award (Danish 'Grammy'), as Roots Name of the Year.

The band name ‘Svøbsk’ is actually the name of an old and pretty wild dance, and during this concert the band did introduce a young dancer, Asbjørn Melvin, who did some solo dancing during the first and the last tune of the concert, inspired by Scandinavian traditional dancing, but with a ‘acrobatic’ twist.

So now it is time for us to listen to the Danish duo Svøbsk, and they start out with a tune called Uptown Davinde, and Davinde is the village on the Danish island of Fyn (Funen), where Jørgen Dickmeiss and Maren Hallberg lives…

Folk Live is being brought to you by RadioFolk.dk, Folk Spot Denmark and Tønder Festival, supported by Spot Festival and The Danish Arts Council. 

You will find much more info about the duo at www.svobsk.dk 

This concert was recorded and mixed by Peter Hellesøe, Thank you for listening! Kending