Wandering Minstrels in Longwood Gardens
by Rita Leydon
Longwood Gardens in eastern Pennsylvania is one of the world´s great masterpiece gardens, originally a private estate belonging to the DuPont family, it is now open to the public.
Recently they wanted to observe the 300th birthday of Carolus Linnaeus, the great Swedish naturalist who founded modern biology.
(Carl von Linné, the webmasters comment to Swedish readers)We were asked to perform and wow the expected guests with some nyckelharpa playing. Mind you, Chris and I were not asked because we are so very skilled, it was more a matter of the fact that there are no other nyckelharpa players anywhere nearby. Luckily for us Bronwyn Bird was home on break from school in Boston and could join us. We three charmed our way through the crowds that swarmed around us like bees around ripe blossoms and had so much fun we didn?t even notice that our allotted two hours just whizzed by and soon it was time to exchange nyckelharpas for dance shoes to lead a workshop in Swedish dance.
photo by Carrie Hogan ?
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