Hurv KRCD-41: Historiska inspelningar av svensk folkmusik XII: Tolv Manne: Spelman från Älvdalen

Elg Lars Emanuel Andersson (1876-1966) was born in Tolvgården in Näset, Älvdalen, from which his name Tolv Manne comes. Together with his cousin Lars Orre from Rot and a third player Gereon Fält, he often played at special occasions and parties, at weddings or dances.

A smallholder with a few cows and calves in the barn, in the summer-time he used to go up to the summer pasture, where he had the violin with him and played a tune or two after the day's work. Winter-time he was out working in the forest, and then the gang of loggers might be offered some entertainment with both the violin and a song.

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The recordings were made in 1957 by another fiddler, Ewert Åhs, apart from track 11 with Manne's daughter Agnes Rothman which was made in 1968 by Märta Ramsten, Svenskt Visarkiv, the Centre for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research.

60 tracks:58 with violin, one with Manne singing, one with his daughter Agnes Rothmans singing.

Booklet only in Swedish.

Total playing time 73:56.