Haverö – Hägersten – Honshu
Domo Arigatou! Thank you all musicians and friends! Thank you my brother Koiwa san giving me the oppurtunity to be touring in Japan for almost twenty years. The final with Göran Månsson matsuri was fantastic! I’ll keep this moment in my heart forever!
Traditional music from Härjedalen with Anders Thunell fiddle, Olav Mjelva fiddle, Lasse Sörlin fiddle, guitar and Göran Månsson traditional flutes and percussion. Recorded in Röros in spring 2022. Album label: Nordic Tunes. Order cd direct from Göran Månsson
The album Ol’Jansa was released on the 18 oct 2017 by Caprice records! The cd is one of the ten best cd’s of 2017 appointed by Lira magazin! Here’s the tune ’Härjedalen’ from the cd.
New recordings of the flute player Olof Jönsson Ol’Jansa (1867–1951) tunes. The band with Karin Nakagawa koto, Emma Ahlberg Ek fiddle, Patrik Källström fiddle, pumporgan and Martin von Schmalensee bass, guitar and producer.
Göran Månsson Band & saw player Sakita Hajime in Kawashinagano september 2012. Filmed by Måns Berthas & Torbjörn Bergqvist. Göran Månsson Band: Petter Berndalen, Daniel Ek & Göran Månsson. The documentary movie ’From Haverö to Osaka’ about Göran’s touring in Japan was broadcasted in Swedish Television in winter 2015.
I’m happy to announce that I got the Culture Prize 2014 in Ånge Community! The prize was given to me by Queen Silvia on the National Day. I also played a tune from Haverö by Per Jonas Lång for the King and Queen. In this link below you can hear the interview from the Swedish radio with King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia: Interview
Queen Silvia says that she’s very impressed by Göran Månsson and says ’he’s playing his music like a wizard’! She also is very happy that Göran spreads Swedish music abroad, especially in Japan.
Thank you all for a fantastic birthday! Fans, musicians and staff at Fågel Blå! Domo arrigato!!
Naturae Sonus is a new concert for folk flutes and chamber orchestra by Mats Edén. The video shows the first performance with Nordiska kammarorkestern at Tonhallen in Sundsvall 6-7 November 2013. The second part shows Göran Månsson Band together with the orchestra in arrangments of the bands tunes.
Naturae Sonus from Göran Månsson on Vimeo.
Naturae Sonus was composed by Mats Edén directly for Göran Månsson and premiered together with the Nordic Chamber Orchestra on 7-8 November in Tonhallen, Sundsvall. The work contains several different solo passages on no less than nine different types of folk pipes. The instruments used include Härjedals- and Offerdal Pipes. Another more modern instruments also have a role in the work, subcontrabass recorder.
Between the various solos the orchestra moves in a contrasting modern tonal language where you can hear both Stravinsky and Debussy. The result is an exciting meeting between the harsh tonal language of the Nordic flutes and the modern sound of the orchestra. It