Project

The notebooks where Hanny Christen wrote the folk dances she collected during her research travels in all parts of Switzerland were published (by Mülirad-Verlag) in 2005. Since then, they have spurred a wave of renewed interest in traditional music, in particular through original arrangements of the old tunes, especially North of the Alps.

This project aims at producing original arrangements of the tunes which Hanny Christen collected in conton Ticino. It seemed only natural that the instrumentation of choice would be that of `bandella', although the arrangements often depart from the traditional way of bandella-playing.