Singing- Mia Guldhammer (Dk)
This singing workshop is intended for anyone who enjoys singing and wants to learn more about using the voice and/or wants to know about traditional songs from Denmark..
Mia wrote about this course:
“If you like chain dances, fairy tales and really long old songs (where you do not understand half of the lyrics, but somehow still understand it all) then this is exactly the workshop for you! Based on Denmark’s old traditional folk ballads you will get a crash course in rhythmic mouth music, various chain dancing, drone singing and 800-year-old trance-long ballads. Everyone can participate. We will be learning by ear and under the premises of ‘natural singing’, with the beaks we are blessed with.
Looking so much forward to this! I’ll be doing some ‘drone-choir’-arrangements, mouth music pieces and some ‘tral’, along with some ballad dancing and singing, so I think it will be a lot of fun. And I will make it approachable regardless of language and level.“
Level of the course
Participants do not need to have any previous training or workshops. Participants are not afraid to use their voice, but much singing experience is not necessary. Students should bring paper for notes and some kind of recording device to record examples and the singing together. The workshop will be given in English.
Maximum amount of participants: 30-35
Mia Guldhammer
Mia Guldhammer is a Danish ballad singer and musician known for her work with traditional folk music and song. She specializes in performing, preserving, and passing on old Danish ballads and folk songs.
Guldhammer is active in various music projects and collaborates with other musicians in the folk music genre, including Morten Alfred Høirup, Kristian Bugge, Poul Lendal, Kristine Heebøll, the medieval orchestra Virelai, the folktronica band Mallebrok, the duo Grabow & Guldhammer, Marie Länne Persson (SE), Olaf Moen (NO), Sofia Sandén (SE), and the Breton quartet Dour/Le Pottier (FR).
Together with Sara Grabow, she received the Tradition Award in 2023, as well as Danish Roots Track of the Year for the song “Fuglens varsel” at DMA Roots.1
Listen to Mia Guldhammer:
• FOLK SPOT 2021 – Virelai
• FOLKAMOK! – Virelai
• Akka Makka Mia: Det var en lørdag aften
• MIA GULDHAMMER & MORTEN ALFRED HØIRUP: En sang jeg fremfører for hvem der vil høre
• NØKKEN – Dour / Le Pottier Quartet meet Sofia Sanden & Mia Guldhammer
• Quartet Dour / Le Pottier, Mia Guldhammer, Sofia Sandén – Naoway Sessions
• Virelai – Nøkken
- Deepl translation of a part of an article about Mia at the Danish Wikipedia ↩︎