Merit Hemmingson -.Jmtlnsk Folkvisa - ( Swedish Folksong from Jmtland )

Merit Hemmingson, born 30 August 1940 in the village Gärdsta in Marby parish in Jämtland, is a Swedish organist, composer and singer. She became rikskänd in the late 1960s for its modern poparrangemang of Swedish folk music. Already in the mid-1950s, Merit played piano in various jazz-influenced dance bands in Jämtland. She moved after matriculation at Wargentinskolan in Ostersund to Stockholm in 1959, and played there often including at Nalen. After a trip to the U.S., she formed his own quintet, Merit and