Emilia Amper at Big Ears 2017, photo by Sydney Osborne
“Amper said stories tell of original (nyckelharpa) players dealing with the devil, composing such beguiling polskas that their listeners would dance until they dropped dead. She said, ‘First it was a drone instrument, and you could only play certain keys.’”
“Thank you, Emilia Amper for bewitching us with your nyckelharpa (and letting us live to tell others about it).”