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 | | Is it in anyway similar to Marie Boine Persen who I believe is a Laplander (one of my favourite world music releases is her album 'Gula Gula'). |
 | | I've heard and seen Marie Boine,...she's rather well known up here, but being a Lapp, which means you could be from Norway, Sweden, Finland, or Russia,...their cultural group crosses right across scandinavia and into the former soviet bloc, I'm not sure which country she's from,...perhaps here or sweden. |
 | | Finnish folk is like, well, finnish folk,..except they take it much more seriously; there's a prestidgeous folk music academy over here, etc. etc.,...perhaps because, outside of the more or less inhabited south-south west (where I live), this is a country of villages, with the odd high-tech town here and there. |
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