Eiwor Kjellberg

Swedish national fiddler from Järvsö in central Hälsingland, born December 8, 1959. She specializes in the song traditions in her hometown and her own compositions. Her early sources of inspiration were her father Gustav Kjellberg and his best friend Olars-Erik Fernmalm, both farmers and fiddlers in Järvsö, and the music teacher Rolf Westerlund who came to Järvsö in the 1970s and started the youth play group. Kjellberg has been chairman of Hälsinglands spelmansförbund since 1998 and has worked for Studieförbundet Bilda Gävle-Dala as a folk music consultant since 2002, including with the youth projects Hälsinge Låtverkstad and the foreign project SNAP, Folk Summer School and from 2013 the heritage fund project FolkUngar. She is a member of many groups such as Eiwor Kjellberg Band EKB and "Låta Myttje". The group plays both other people's and self-composed songs in a traditional style. Kjellberg is also a member of Hälsinge Akademi.