Dr Esbjorn Wettermark

I have background as a musician and educator with focus on folk and traditional music. As a music researcher I have worked extensively on Vietnamese music and music theatre over many years. This included my Masters and PhD research in Ethnomusicology at Goldsmiths and Royal Holloway as well as my work with the international research project Sustainable Futures for Music Cultures.

In addition to my interest in ethnomusicology, I have worked on areas such as rural/urban divides and cultural policy and VR-technology in music education. As a musician my focus has been on traditional music from Scandinavia and England on clarinet and melodeon. I was awarded the Swedish title Riksspelman (National Folk Musician) in 2005 for my performance of traditional music from Halsingland in northern Sweden on the clarinet.

In addition to music performance and research I have worked in arts management as Regional Producer for folk and world music in Sweden and most recently as Education Manager for the English Folk Dance and Song Society. I am currently a research associate on Dr Fay Hield’s  UKRI Future leaders fellowship project looking at participation and inclusion in English Folk singing.

Access Folk is built on co-production principles where the people affected have real power to direct the research and will trial and evaluate new approaches in collaboration with the wider folk singing scene.

Diversifying participation in English folk singing: New project launched

Folk singer and University of Sheffield academic, Dr Fay Hield, has launched a new UKRI funded project, Access Folk. The project aims to explore ways to increase and diversify participation in English folk singing.

9 May 2022

Website: http://accessfolk.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
Email: accessfolk@sheffield.ac.uk
Social Media: @AccessFolk
Tel: 0114 2220466