{"id":8614,"date":"2017-08-26T21:51:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T04:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=8614"},"modified":"2017-08-26T22:00:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T05:00:03","slug":"weekend-extra-art-farmer-and-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2017\/08\/weekend-extra-art-farmer-and-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Extra: Art Farmer And Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8615\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Migrant-Farmer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"239\" \/>The most recent visit to Sweden stays with me more than three weeks after my return. In great part, that is because music I heard at the Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival refuses to leave my head. A piece played in Ystad by more than one group hangs on persistently and delightfully. It is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153De S\u00c3\u00a5lde Sina Hemman,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d also known in Sweden as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Imigrantvisa.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It is a traditional song associated with Swedish people who joined the migration to The United States from the late 19th century into the 1920s\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwell more than a million of them. Here we see a section of <em>The Emigrants<\/em> by the popular artist S. V. Helander (1839\u00e2\u20ac\u201c1901) showing a young farmer bidding a sober farewell to friends and relatives.<\/p>\n<p>Many Americans first became aware of the song when Art Farmer made it a part of his 1964 album <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2weEmO7\"><em>To Sweden With Love<\/em> <\/a>under the title \u00e2\u20ac\u0153They Sold Their Homestead.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Like much Swedish folk music, it manages to be lilting with a tinge of sadness. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a melody that stays with you, whether or not you have been to Sweden. Farmer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quartet includes Jim Hall, guitar; Steve Swallow, bass; and Pete LaRoca, drums. If you get a content warning, simply click on &#8220;Watch on YouTube.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PP1dqSI7XIk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Have a good weekend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most recent visit to Sweden stays with me more than three weeks after my return. In great part, that is because music I heard at the Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival refuses to leave my head. A piece played in Ystad by more than one group hangs on persistently and delightfully. It is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153De S\u00c3\u00a5lde [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8615,"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-8614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614","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=8614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}