What happens when folk music and classical chamber music meet – and how can music bring people and traditions together? At the Frederiksdal Chamber Folk Festival, musical traditions intersect, and together with concerts, dance and volunteering, the door to new human encounters is opened. This podcast is part of a series titled Capital Gold – Folk Music in Denmark, which is about

Is it worth it for musicians and genre organizations to travel all the way to Las Palmas on Gran Canaria to sell Danish music at the world music fair Womex? Is it true that not only freedom of expression, but also the arm's length principle, i.e. the principle that politicians should support but not control when they distribute financial support to culture, is under pressure these years?

Welcome to Spillefolk rejser ud, a handful of podcasts where we follow Danish musicians who go abroad to give concerts and represent Denmark, sometimes in purely Danish bands, but often also in bands consisting of musicians from several countries and cultures. The background for this series is that we get an idea of how the Danish musicians