Besides dramatic Italian ballads like " Anima Mia " and " Vado Via " the album includes Lyngstad's interpretations of 10cc's " The Wall Street Shuffle " and David Bowie's " Life on Mars ", sixties hits like The Beach Boys ' " Wouldn't It Be Nice " and Gary Puckett & The Union Gap's " Young Girl ", the country and western ballad " The Most Beautiful Girl ", " Send in the Clowns " from Stephen Sondheim's musical A Little Night Music as well as the Greek folk song " Siko Chorepse Syrtaki " and " Som en sparv " ( with lyrics by Swedish poet Barbro Hörberg ) originally recorded by Swedish band Wasa.

A Folk Divided: Homeland Swedes and Swedish Americans, 1840 — 1940.

Society and Defence or Folk och Försvar is a Swedish non-governmental organisation which acts as a forum for debate over defence and national security issues in Sweden.

Folk etymology traces its name to Ingegerd Olofsdotter, the daughter of the Swedish king Olof Skötkonung ( 995 – 1022 ).

For example, the 2007 New England Folk Festival included Bulgarian, Japanese, and Swedish music, and the 2007 Working Waterfront Festival included Portuguese fado music and Mexican norteño.

* 2 Swedish Folk Melodies, Op.

His acceptance speech into the Swedish Academy, titled " Om Hjeltesagan å Rökstenen " ( translated as " Concerning the Heroic-Saga on the Rök Runestone ") was published in English translation, with an introduction by Swedish Scholar Ola Östin, in its entirety in The Runestone Journal 1, 2007, a publication of the Asatru Folk Assembly.

In 1993 Hedningarna was awarded a Swedish Grammis ( the equivalent of Grammy ) for The Best Folk Music Album of the year.

The 1990s also began to see the emergence of the first new electric folk acts for almost a decade, with bands like Broadside Electric in 1990 and the consciously named Swedish outfit Electric Folk from 1996.

* Swedish Folk Modern ( 1997 – 98 ) with Esbjörn Svensson

Folk high schools ( Danish: Folkehøjskole ; Finnish: kansanopisto and työväenopisto or kansalaisopisto ; German: Volkshochschule and ( uncommon ) Heimvolkshochschule ; Norwegian: Folkehøgskole ; Swedish: Folkhögskola ) are institutions for adult education that generally do not grant academic degrees, though certain courses might exist leading to that goal.

The Finnish työväenopisto or kansalaisopisto ( called arbetarinstitut in Swedish ) are also part of the educational Folk tradition.

Children participating in the camps also perform at Høstfest in scheduled events such as the Troll beauty contest, Norwegian Folk dance, Swedish Maypole dancers, and the Troll parade.

* Variations on a Swedish Folk Tune ( 1945, solo flute ; 1970, revised for flute and alto flute )

Solidarity Front for the People of Indochina ( in Swedish: Solidaritetsfronten för Indokinas Folk ) was an organization in Sweden, created by KFML ( r ) to mobilize support for the liberation struggles of the Indochinese people.

* A Folk Divided: Homeland Swedes and Swedish Americans, 1840-1940 ( 1994 )

* Alien ( band ), a 1980s Swedish rock group

* The Ark ( band ), Swedish glam-rock band

* The Ark ( EP ), the debut EP of the Swedish band The Ark

* Absolute Design, an album from the Swedish band Engel

Another major influence on black metal was the Swedish band Bathory, led by Thomas Forsberg ( under the pseudonym Quorthon ).

* Cortex, a Swedish post-punk alternative band by Freddie Wadling

* Chimera ( Andromeda album ), a 2006 album by Swedish progressive metal band Andromeda

The Swedish progressive extreme metal band Opeth released two concept albums in the late 90s.

The song " Baby Doll " was used in the film Tapeheads, with newly recorded Swedish lyrics, and was credited to ( and shown in a music video by ) a fictitious Swedish band called Cube-Squared.

* Freestyle ( Swedish band ), a Swedish band

* Fission ( band ), a Swedish melodic death metal band

Swedish band Broder Daniel, who contributed three English language songs to the movie, released an EP titled Fucking Åmål.

* Kite ( band ), a Swedish synthpop duo

* Legion, stage name of Erik Hagstedt, Swedish vocalist in the black metal band Marduk

* " Madrigal ", a song by Swedish progressive metal band Opeth, from the album My Arms, Your Hearse

* Nemesis ( Swedish band ), featuring Leif Edling

* Page ( band ), a Swedish synth pop group

* Sverige ( band ), a Swedish band

* 1945 – Björn Ulvaeus, Swedish singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( ABBA and Hootenanny Singers )

* The Northern Lights, the name used by Swedish folk group The Hootenanny Singers for an American LP release

It features several songs written by Benny and " Isn't It Easy To Say ", the first joint composition by Benny and his new friend Björn Ulvaeus, then a member of the acoustic group Hootenanny Singers, who mainly sang in the Swedish language.

He has also drummed on several tracks by Swedish pop music group ABBA, having worked with Björn Ulvaeus ' previous group, the Hootenanny Singers.

Performing at the recording session were Ellington on the piano and doing the narration, 16 of his orchestra members, four vocalists including the Swedish singer Alice Babs, and five choirs: the AME Mother Zion Church Choir, the choirs Of St Hilda's and St. Hugh's School, the Central Connecticut State College Singers, and the Frank Parker Singers.

* Professional choirs, either independent ( e. g. Anúna ) or state-supported ( e. g., BBC Singers, National Chamber Choir of Ireland, Canadian Chamber Choir, Swedish Radio Choir ).

His ability to write a song from almost any source material and at prodigious speed is part of his cabaret act, which includes such diverse gems as singing the instructions from a Swedish payphone ; a pastiche of the King's Singers listing all the kings and queens of England in which he sings all four parts ; and composing a song in the interval from a series of words and musical notes called out by the audience.