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Gunnel Mauritzson Band perform poetic Swedish folk music with influences from blue tones and jazz. They can vary the constellation from duo to quintet and perform in different contexts, from churches to festivals and concert halls. They also do workshops and collaborative projects with guest artists and choirs. Recently Gunnel and the band received a large grant to make music together with chamber orchestra. A project that will have concert premiere in Visby, Gotland May 2015.

Gunnel Mauritzson has her roots in the folk music from Gotland in the Baltic See and were earlier a member of the group Gunnfjauns kapell. Nowadays, she has established herself as one of Sweden's premier folk singers known for to explore the boundary between folk, jazz and Swedish songs. In 1996, she released her solo debut CD "Silhuette" with her own band, containing personal interpretations of melodies composed by the late Swedish barythone saxophone player Lars Gullin, combined with new and old poetic lyrics in Swedish.
In 2002, she recieved the Gullin scholarship and toured 2008/2009 with the touring national theatre with a performance about Gullins life and music. In her band she has gathered some of the foremost musicians within the genres of folk music and jazz in Sweden. With a contemporary repertoire of newly written and traditional melodies the music and words get and new life.
Bengan Jonasson is the world's first bass guitar player educated in Swedish folk music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. With an innovative and personal style he moves freely from grooves to melody playing on both bass guitar and banjo.
Christian Jormin lives on Brännö outside Gothenburg. He is a very expressive musician, and has attracted attention for his playing that is both sensitive and full of natural authority. Christian also has his own jazz trio and is a member of the folk band "Den fule".
Jonas Knutsson is the jazz saxophonist from Umeå who fell in love with the swedish polska melodies traditionally played on violin.  He has developed a way of playing on his saxophone that accomodates both the quarter tones and polska groove in folk music, and the free spirit of improvisation in jazz.
Leif Ottosson, with roots from Oviken Jämtland, is an appreciated muscian in diverse contexts and an equilibrist on his instrument - the accordion - both with traditional tunes and newly written compositions in his repertoire.

Contact:
For contact please send mail to: byheartmusic/at/gunnel.nu

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