me and music in europe

[Nikki R.G.]

Hey everyone...whoever reads this...

I'm in europe right now, Denmark to be exact. I was just vaguely wondering if anyone who has been here recently has any advice about where to go and what to do to absorb good folk music - listening, learning, amazing museums, etc. I have gotten a little bit of advice from people here (e.g., Galway is the place to be in Ireland), but the more information the better. Anything you've got concerning any country could be helpful and interesting. I don't have any specific goals - I WOULD really like to see some hardangfele and/or swedish fiddle music action, however. Other than that, I have my fiddle with me (of course!) and have constructed an elaborate songbook for travelling so I don't run out of new songs to learn. I copied and shrunk down a bunch of sheet music, taped it in a notebook, and spent about 3 days indexing all of it alphabetically within genres, with the specific type of song and key and time signatures listed next to each song. Sorry, I just wanted to brag about it because I worked so hard on it and there's no one here to appreciate it but me. I'm excited to learn more klezmer and some tangoes and venezuelan waltzes while I'm here.

that's all for now.