{"id":4025,"date":"2012-09-07T17:56:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T00:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=4025"},"modified":"2012-09-07T17:56:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T00:56:06","slug":"weekend-extra-ewan-and-hannah-svennson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2012\/09\/weekend-extra-ewan-and-hannah-svennson\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Extra: Ewan And Hannah Svennson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Ystad Jazz Festival in Sweden last month, scheduling caused me to miss a concert by the young Swedish singer Hannah Svensson and her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Hannah-Svensson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Hannah-Svensson.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Hannah Svensson\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Hannah-Svensson.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Hannah-Svensson-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Hannah-Svensson-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><\/a>guitarist father Ewan. Someone who did not miss it took along a camera and posted videos on <em>YouTube<\/em>. Svensson  <em>p\u00c3\u00a8re<\/em>, if that is an appropriate designation in Sweden, is a seasoned guitarist with senses of timing, swing and appropriate chords that create effective accompaniments. She is a singer with control, intonation and lyric interpretation that make her worth following. According to her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hannahsvensson.com\/\"target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> biography, Ms. Svensson is 26 and from Gothenburg on Sweden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s west coast. She had been a piano student for several years when at 17 she heard <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eva_Cassidy\"target=\"_blank\">Eva Cassidy<\/a> recordings and decided to become a singer. Here are father and daughter in a song also included in the Svenssons\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hannahsvensson.com\/_favoritethings.php\"target=\"_blank\">recent album<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VEL_ngvJblU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Ystad Jazz Festival in Sweden last month, scheduling caused me to miss a concert by the young Swedish singer Hannah Svensson and her guitarist father Ewan. Someone who did not miss it took along a camera and posted videos on YouTube. Svensson p\u00c3\u00a8re, if that is an appropriate designation in Sweden, is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}