Published on 19 September 2011 · Herald Scotland · Rob Adams There can’t be many Swedish folk groups with a street named after them in America, a tribute some citizens of Bloomington, Indiana, have conferred upon the extraordinarily accomplished trio Väsen. Following this latest visit to Scotland, maybe we could give them the freedom of…

“If most of the world’s folk music is as rustic and worn in as an old rocking chair, Sweden’s Väsen play music that’s more akin to Hepplewhite or Sheraton in all of its refined Scandinavian beauty. The trio’s been together for twenty years and the patina is richly burnished and deep in tone and polished…

Strathclyde Suite, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 26 January 2008 BARRY GORDON enjoys a entertaining double bill from Sweden and Shetland SWEDEN. Famous for its Vikings and limited amount of sunlight during the shivering winter months, our Scandinavian cousins have given us a lot more than just Abba, blond hair and Henrik Larsson. Like trad music…