concert review: Dreamers' Circus
Mar. 4th, 2023 12:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calimacSF Performances, which mostly puts on classical chamber music, offered a pan-Scandinavian folk ensemble with a classical connection: their violinist is also a member of the Danish String Quartet. But you wouldn't know that from anything he played tonight. All three play multiple instruments, but the other two are mostly heard on accordion and guitar.
Aside from a couple of songs using hums and whistling as just more musical instruments, all of the music on offer was instrumental: some folk tunes, some that the group's members have written themselves, no perceptible difference. Not all the music was lively, but it was almost all fast and intricate. Attractive and very pleasant to listen to, especially when the rhythms got hypnotic, but there was nothing of the haunting morose quality I've heard in other, especially Swedish, folk music.
This could have been at the Freight & Salvage, and it would have been almost exactly the same.
Aside from a couple of songs using hums and whistling as just more musical instruments, all of the music on offer was instrumental: some folk tunes, some that the group's members have written themselves, no perceptible difference. Not all the music was lively, but it was almost all fast and intricate. Attractive and very pleasant to listen to, especially when the rhythms got hypnotic, but there was nothing of the haunting morose quality I've heard in other, especially Swedish, folk music.
This could have been at the Freight & Salvage, and it would have been almost exactly the same.
