| Rana Tre |
 Follow the instrumentalists of the wellknown folk group Ranarim into the exciting world of swedish traditional music. This new group consists of some of the finest folk musicians of their generation: Daniel Ek on the guitar, Niklas Roswall on the nyckelharpa and Petter Berndalen playing percussion. Based in the tradition with roots many hundreds years back they form their music to something very unique and fresh.
Rana Tre, which means Rana Three, offers a repertoire including the typical slängpolska from Skåne, wild triplets in the polskas from Medelpad and beautiful wedding marches. Their schottis tunes makes it impossible to stand still and the sad melodies of waltzes from northern Sweden leaves no eye dry. Re trio combines a groovy sound with a great virtousity and create their very own mix of old and new, north and south.
Rana Tre started as a sideproject when the singers Ulrika and Johanna were recovering from an illness during a school tour. The boys remembered all those happy moments together when playing dance music for hours in Ranarim. So, they took the best tunes, rehearsed and arranged and so the new group was born. LISTEN!
Niklas Roswall plays instruments made by Leif Eriksson and Esbjörn Hogmark
 Niklas Roswall comes from Norra Kverrestad in the south of Sweden. After some years playing folk music on the fiddle he started playing nyckelharpa. Niklas was awarded the title riksspelman 1992 (national fiddler) and won the nyckelharpa World Championship 1996. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm he has been working as a freelancing folk musician in different groups, for example Ranarim and the Nyckelharporchestra, and in duos together with Ian Carr or Jens Comén.
Daniel Ek plays instruments made by Mats Nordwall
 Daniel Ek was born and raised in Vuollerim in northern Sweden. He started playing the guitar at the age of eight and has studied the classical guitar at the Academy of Music in Piteå. Except for the classical guitar Daniel has also played the renaissance lute and the electric guitar. He is also playing the swedish bagpipe. Daniel works parttime as a guitar teacher and parttime as a musician, in Ranarim and Göran Månsson band among others.
Petter Berndalen plays Tobias Drums and Bosphorus Cymbals
 Petter Berndalen from Bollnäs in the middle of Sweden has turned everything upside down concerning how to play the drums. He has been studying swedish traditional music for many years and shaped his own caracteristic style of playing. Petters work is documented on the website www.rhythmofsweden.se. Except for Ranarim Petter is also playing in several other folk music band and in different projects with jazz and classical music.
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