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Pôsuträffen - The Annual Swedish Bagpipe Meeting

This year, the weekend after midsummer, I attended for the first time the annual meeting of Swedish Bagpipe (Säckpipa) Players. The meeting is an informal gathering at the home and B&B of the hosts, Hans and Gun Rönnegård, , in the small town of Gagnef, set in the beautiful countryside of Dalarna. I arrived there on the Friday afternoon and having received a very warm welcome from Hans and Gun, I very quickly got talking to the other people who had already arrived. I was shown my accommodation, a loft room (Loftet), which housed five people. There was a large wooden table in the middle, covered in Bagpipes made by Börs Anders Öhman, who let me try some of them. He also brought some very nice whiskey to share. Throughout the rest of the evening, other attendees arrived, some I’d met, some I hadn’t, and some I’d only met online prior! It wasn’t long until there was music. The setting lent itself to small circles of pipers forming and naturally one musician will start a tune, and if it’s well known, everyone else will start playing along!

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