Icelandic people feel a great love for its own environment and culture, and they try to preserve and develop it in the best way they can do, that is, keeping alive. Actually, more than 90 per cent of the children in Westfjords are in music schools. It is a huge number if it is compared with other European countries. As a matter of fact, the music school of Ísafjörður is the oldest one in all the country, established in 1911.
It is easy to feel the power of music in this wonderful area surrounded by many fjords and loneliness in the middle of the nature. If you close your eyes in a windy day and start listening to those beautiful songs you could transport to a far place, out of time and distance, and you would start to understand this close but exotic country. Six popular songs:
One of this example is Helga Kristbjörg, a young girl that lives in Ísafjörður and who works playing traditional songs in Bolungarvik church for tourist people that are coming by cruise even more often than ever. She is an example of how young people care about their own origins and they promoted to everyone who wants to know them better.
“ More than 90 per cent of the children in Westfjords are in music schools.”
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Oifadir gjör mig litid ljos, composer from Isafjordur Jonas Tomasson Thu ert (you are) by Thorarinn Gudmundsson Dyravisa- an Icelandic folk song Litla fhugan (the little fly) by Sigfus Halldorsson A sprengisandi by Sigvaldi Kaldalons Sjomannaralsinn by Sharar Benediktsson