Reet Hendrikson

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Born: June 21, 1944, Pärnu, Pärnu maakond, Estonia Died: October 16, 2000 Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden Reet Hendrikson was born in Estonia only months before the “great escape” into exile in 1944. Brought up and educated in Sweden, she went to study in the US in 1967 on a Fulbright scholarship, before she made her mark as an Estonian musician in Canada. While her arrangements of Estonian folksongs on the guitar reflected the styles of the sixties, her voice and choice of material sounded authentic and made a connection with ages past. When Hendrikson arrived in Canada in 1968 via the US, her Estonian was native-like because of the high quality of Estonian schools in Sweden. She was thus able to characterise the identity of young ex-patriate Estonians – especially those born in exile from Soviet occupation – in a new and meaningful way. A formal musical background allowed her to create the arrangements that accompanied her simple but pure singing voice. Having heard her under northern Muskoka pines at an Estonian summer seminar, it didn’t take Andres Raudsepp ( of raindeer records) long to bring her to a recording studio. “Reet – Estonian folksongs” appeared in 1969. Hendrikson soon found her way to the scholarly atmosphere of Boston where, as a multi-instrumentalist, she joined a group of musicians who favoured traditional folk music. Back in Sweden in the 1980ies, she was invited to join a scholarly society of Estonian young women, which she led during musical se

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Reet

Eesti rahvalaule

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Estonian folksongs

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va - Գարուն: Garuna (Spring) [Tristes Humanistes Mixtape]

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Esto-Muusika: Ulgu-Eesti Leviplaadid 1958-1969

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Piety & Custom II: Another Revelry in Song

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va - Գարուն: Garuna (Spring) [Tristes Humanistes]

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Psychfolk is a Nine Letter Word

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Գարուն: Garuna (Spring) [Tristes Humanistes]

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Februum

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Esto-Muusika 1958-1969

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Sometimes the Sea: a mixtape by Victoria Smyrniotis

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