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Alyssa is one of the few and finest players of the nyckelharpa, Sweden’s national “keyed fiddle” instrument, in New York. She has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright grant to study at The Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, where she researched Nordic folk music and folk music improvisation. Alyssa has studied nyckelharpa with many riksspellmän (master Swedish folk musicians) in Sweden, including at the year-long folk music course at the Eric Sahlström Institute 2023-2024. She has headlined festivals at the American Swedish Institute and the Jamestown Scandinavian Festival, and she gives lecture recitals as well as sold out performances as “The Fiddle Witch” at Rochester’s Fringe Fest.