Concert with Anda

Mattias has a friend, Anders, that he is playing Swedish folkmusic together with in a duo, Anda. Anders was planing a visit to the island and it was decided that they would do a Christmas concert together. We've been putting up posters and hoping for word of moth to be a good advertiser.
Anders was planing to come here on Tuesday but missed his train from Skopje and then on Wednesday there where no ferrys because of strike and on Thursday we still didn't know if he would get across to the island since it started snowing and some ferrys was canceled.
But he did make it across and we were having a beautiful evening in the culture house.

Dimitri and Kenneth outside, welcoming peopel to the consert.

Mattias in playing a lute from this part of the world
(being in Greece we don't have to go into details since it's a Saz from Turky :-)

In the early Christian life of Sweden the old gods and ways where still in use.
In one of the songs that was sang it's telling about this as it's sharing the story of tree brothers, three fishermen, that on the night of Christmas eve are going out fishing. When the storm is getting stronger they are throwing their brother, the navigator, in the sea to plead the gods. But the storm is not ceasing and without their navigator they don't find their way so they are calling out to God almighty and a dove (a picture of the holy spirit) is appearing, sitting in the front to guide their way.

Anders is playing a Keyed fiddle, a traditional Swedish instrument.

If you want to hear or read som about Anda you can look at these sites
http://www.anda.info.se/ and http://www.myspace.com/andafolk

At the end Kenneth was sharing a word. He had brought a picture from a quite remarkable and fun story, a women that happend to brake her plastic santa Clause and found Jesus inside. I think it's a good picture of what Christmas is all about! www.aftonbladet.se
We have to let go of that which is not true in our lifes to be able to see Jesus.