Orsa Spelmän

Swedish folk music group that performed as early as 1977 in Nygammalt with Bosse Larsson as a group. The two oldest brothers Moraeus, Nicke Göthe and Leif Jacobsson participated in Nygammalt 1977. In its current form and with the large audience, they began performing in 1987 with Benny Andersson as the initiator. Now they are five members; Nicke Göthe and Larsåke Leksell have left the group and Pether Olsson has joined instead. Orsa Spelmän music includes both traditional fiddler songs as well as self-composed works. They participated in the Melodifestivalen 2010 in Sandviken with the song Underbart and then went to Andra chansen. Together with Benny Andersson, the Academy of Music in Piteå's chamber choir and Gunnar Idenstam, they premiered Benny Andersson's specially written works "En skrift i snön".