Norrlåtar

Norrlåtar is a folk group from the Norrbotten province in the north of Sweden. Its first ambition was to preserve and continue the local tradition of folk music in the 1970's. More recently, it embraced the world music genre and began to draw inspiration from many parts of the world, including jazz, klezmer and Balkan bands. What originally began as an angry expression of a repressed local identity (the Swedish-, Finnish- and Sami-speaking Norrbottnians) gradually grew to express a multicultural joy of life.