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Anders & Maria Larsson

Anders and Maria Larsson play Swedish folk music of Skåne, Södermanland, the areas they grew up in, but also of Malung, Dalarna where they lived and taught for fifteen years. Anders and Maria have toured together in 25 countries from Kenya to Greece and frequently in Germany and Scotland. They are two of Swedens most established folk musicians and for many years operated their own record label and culture house in Malung, Sweden where Anders was a vocal coach at the renowned folk music education course at Malungs

Anders began his musical career as a punk band bassist home in Strängnäs. Later in life he continued his musical career with a deep dive into the Sörmländska folk tradition.

Maria trained at the Malmö Academy of Music and at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, where she studied baroque / renaissance music and folk music. At the age of seven she began playing violin and a few years later, she met her first music friends and together they formed the group Plommon. Along with Plommon, Maria was touring intensively throughout Europe and the U.S. for several years.