The Dancing Masters

Both the name of the group and the tunes that we play originate from John Playford's country dance tutorial The Dancing Master, that was printed in 18 editions from 1651 to approx. 1728, and contains over 500 dances. (The angelic fiddler in our logo is from the 7th edition.)

In our arrangements of the one-part originals, we focus on the folk musical element of the tunes, using some typical folk instruments, like nyckelharpa, jaw harp, and hurdy-gurdy, to complement the standard baroque recorder, violin, and viol.

We have performed at a lot of different venues, like the Stockholm Early Music Festival, the Korrö folk music festival, Musik i Glasriket, Konstsommar in the botanical garden of Linnaeus in Uppsala, Riddarholmsdagen in Stockholm, 1700-talsfesten in Uppsala, the Hammarskog manor, and various pubs, parties, and churches, etc.

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