Sara Parkman is a multi-award-winning Swedish musician and artist who, since her debut in 2016, has been pushing the boundaries of what folk music can be. Her albums – the latest being Eros Agape Philia from 2022 – have won numerous prestigious prizes, including the Swedish Grammis, and the artist has been repeatedly praised for her ability to weave together tradition and the future. Parkman is the figurehead of a wave of new interest in music based on Nordic folk tradition and has carved out a unique place in the Scandinavian folk music community through her involvement as a founder of record label Supertraditional. In 2025, while working on new music of her own, Parkman collaborated with legendary names such as Iggy Pop, Ringo Starr and Laurie Anderson on the Nobel Assembly’s ‘Hard Rain’ project and toured worldwide playing experimental festivals with the dark eclectic project Funeral Folk.

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