Jan Winter

Jan Carl Maximilian Winter, born August 27, 1950, in Stockholm, Sweden is a Swedish journalist, writer and musician with early and folk music as a special interest. He was deeply involved in the folk music wave of the 1970s, but above all in the interest for lesser known folk musical instruments that followed the wave. During the 1980s, a collaboration was initiated with the musicologist Per-Ulf Allmo, with whom he has published the reference works Lirans hemlighet and Säckpipan i Norden. Winter and Allmo jointly owned the publishing company Förlaget Tongång (now defunct), which released over 70 CDs with folk music as the main theme. Winter was also active as a teacher of bagpipe courses during the 1980s and 1990s, including at the Falun Folk Music Festival and the bagpipe festival in Dala Järna. Winter has lira (hurdygurdy), säckpipa (bagpipes especially Swedish bagpipes) and older varieties of nyckelharpa (key fiddle) as main instruments but plays a number of other folk musical instruments. He has played in many different groups and ensembles and has also been a studio musician on a dozen recordings. Between 1976 and 2014, Jan Winter worked as a journalist, mostly with Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå (TT), the Swedish news agenc. In May 2018, Winter's first work of fiction was published, Dieters bok - flykting hos familjen Bergman (Dieter's book - A refugee with the Bergman family. The book was published by Förlaget Tongång.