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Dance the night away to the sounds of "Split Decision" and "The Blades".

"The Blades"

Hailing from Salina, Kansas, "The Blades" are a nine-piece Horn Band with an energetic sound. Their catchy pop-rock brand of rhythm and blues makes them right at home at any kind of a venue.

The band's offerings come from the sounds of powerful groups including Blood Sweat, and Tears, James Brown, Delbert McClinton, Sting, Chicago, and many many more. "The Blades" are the Horn Band that you are waiting to hear!

"The Blades" combination of tradition and an energetic live show make them one of the best bands in the Midwest. "The Blades" have appeared on many stages large and small. Energy, Power, Excellence! An experienced band with a GREAT sound!

Members:
Loren Banninger - Bass
Dean Kranzler - Drums
Greg Boyle - Guitar
Tim Arkebauer - Vocals
Steve Leuth - Keyboards
David Cooper - Saxophone
Quentin Breese - Trumpet
David Koetting - Trombone
C.A.Ritter - Bass Trombone

"Split Decision"

Split Decision started out in the basement of a friend's house, three firemen with an interest in music wanting to get better. We had a guitar player, drummer and a bass. We soon added another guitar player/vocalist. We plodded along for about three months before we realized we weren't getting any better. We knew the problem was that we had no Kick A** guitar player. We started looking and ended up winning the lottery. Jake Montoya joined the band and was not only able to lead us into the next level but into three or four levels above that. Jake is a gold mine, he is able to not only play the guitar extremely well, but able to teach other members of the band what they need to be doing to make the sound right. At this point we decided that we deserved a name. The choices were "Rescue Me", my favorite, or "Fahrenheit". The vote was 2 to 2 with one not willing to vote. Someone said "well then it's a Split Decision", hence the name. We also added an extremely talented singer, Tim Roets. We play about 65% modern country with the rest being southern rock mixed with other types of partying music. Jerry Short, Todd Welsh, Jake Montoya, Tim Roets would like to invite everyone to come and enjoy a live energetic show with "Split Decision".

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P.O. Box 323
Lindsborg, Kansas 67456

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Other events and entertainment scheduled for the three day weekend:

Vocal Groups include:

• Smoky Valley Men's Chorus - Performing Friday, October 9th, at the Bethany Lutheran Church.

• Lindsborg Swedish Folk Dancers - Lindsborg's ambassadors, made up of dedicated high school students.
• Lindsborg Folkdanslag - Adult dancers from the Lindsborg community.
• Home School Dancers - Made up of students who are home schooled.  A relatively new group, but exceptionally adept at the art of dance.
• 8th Grade Girls Maypole Dancers and 8th Grade Boys "Oxen Dance".
• Soderstrom School - Students performing Swedish games and dances.
• Björksta Folkdanslag - From Umeå, Sweden

Björksta Folkdanslag

Björksta Folkdanslag, or shorter Björkstalaget was founded in 1923 to encourage traditional Swedish folk dances and to counteract the modern dances that were coming from the United States at the time. The latest "one step" and "two step" were considered vulgar or even sinful. The Charleston was just beginning to become known in the USA. Members of Björkstalaget were supposed to promise not to dance those modern dances, or at least not to dance them when wearing the traditional folk dance costumes.

Björksta Folkdanslag is now Umeå's oldest folkdance group and has about 80 members. We are a nonprofit and nonprofessional dance group.

Originally, the dance group had its own musicians, and danced only to live music. However, in 1956 they found it necessary to buy their first tape recorder. We do not have our "own" musicians now but "borrow" them from wherever we can. During our trip to the U.S. in October 2009, about 20 students from the municipal Umeå Music School will provide us with music. 

At every midsummer and on the Swedish national day (June 6) we wear traditional folk dance costumes and mostly dance traditional folk dances. Sometimes with live music, sometimes with recorded music. During the rest of the year we present a few formal folk dance shows, but mostly dance for the fun of it.

Folkhettan och Folkfräs

"Folkhettan" is made up of high schoolers, and the name implies "really hot folk music". "Folkfräs" is made up junior high schoolers, and the name is best translated as "sizzling-hot folk music". Now, which one is hotter, I ask?

Folkhettan and Folkfräs are a part of the Music School's ensemble activities that are directed toward folk music. The groups are led by Lena Sparresäter, violin, and Torbjörn Sundlöf, guitar.  The main instrument is the violin, but accompanying instruments such as guitar, base violin and pump organ are included. The main part of the repertoire is Swedish folk music, but influences from other cultures' folk music are also included. 

These music groups are a visible portion of the municipality's culture life, and during the years they have performed on many of Umeå's public stages. Collaboration with other nearby countries, such as Finland, Norway and Denmark has been going on for several years. 

The pictures are from last summer's big event in Kaustinen, Finland, at which about 450 young people from Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway played music together during the big, yearly folk music festival.

• Lindsborg Middle School Strings - Performing under the direction of Henry Littich.
• Lindsborg Middle School Band - Performing under the direction of Shawn Knopp.

Join our ALLSPEL at Svensk Hyllningsfest!

This year we will introduce you to an ALLSPEL at Svensk Hyllningsfest. For the ALLSPEL we encourage all musicians, fiddlers and players of other instruments, alumni-fiddlers and future fiddlers, guests as well as Lindsborg-musicians, senior citizens as well as students, and people brave enough to participate in something new to join the Lindsborg Swedish Fiddlers. We'd like to start a new tradition, but we need you!  For more information, visit our ALLSPEL page.

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