Merit Hemmingson

Pustervik & Headstomp present

MERIT HEMMINGSON

Pustervik

12 November 2026

Age restriction: 18+

Concert venue opens: 19.00

On stage at approx. 20:00

Merit Hemmingson is a composer, arranger, organist and singer from Jämtland. She has devoted her life to exploring and shaping her own musical landscape, bending and challenging genres in ways that have often made waves. Since the 1960s, her personal style has carved out a unique place in Swedish music history where jazz, groove rock and, above all, folk music meet.

A new album, “Pekkos Per å Jag”, will be released in autumn 2026, and Merit will go on tour with her band.

Pekkos Per (1807-1877) is a legendary figure in Swedish folk music. For Merit Hemmingson, he is a constant source of inspiration. Hemmingson has now recorded a selection of Pekkos Per’s treasured tunes in a reinterpretation that is as familiar and clear as it is swirling, inspired and exploratory.

“For me, Pekkos Per from Bingsjö in Dalarna has always been one of the biggest names in Swedish folk music,” says Merit Hemmingson. “Many of his tunes move between major and minor, which I find both tricky and exciting.

The tunes have mostly been played by fiddlers, but here I want to convey them in a different and unconventional way on my favourite instrument, the Hammond B3.”

The album, recorded at Sandkvie Studio on Gotland with musicians including Juan Romero, Sara

Parkman, Mats Edén, Ola Winkler and Mattias Bärjed, was produced by Anton Sundell.

A first taste will be released before the summer, followed by a full album – “Pekkos Per å Jag” – in early autumn via Supertraditional Records.