Jan Khouback
accordeon, guitar, piano, spoons
intermezzo@vattnet.com

We are brother and sister.

We have been acting, singing and playing music together and with other people since we were in our teens.

In our current programme Northern Light we focus on Scandinavian myths and legends in words and music.

Why storytelling?

Marie Vazduh
guitar, violin, clarinette, recorders
vazduh07@gmail.com

In the fifties, I started listening to Radio Luxemburg which encouraged my interest in music. I learned to play the guitar and played in rock groups. On my open-reel tape recorder I recorded all the music we made in the basement.  Now I do all the recordings on my computer.
I have produced and directed a number of shows and cabarets.  Presently I am writing a docusoap for the Internet: "Whatever happened to Baby Jane"
Now I work as a system administrator and web master at a school in Göteborg.

In the sixties, I learned to play the guitar and I was at the time very inspired by Joan Baez and the Beatles.
I started performing and writing my own songs as soon as I had learned my first chords.
I am the producer and a member of the group Kelenn that plays French-Celtic music.
I worked as a high school music teacher for many years and I still teach languages.
I am also the webmaster of my high school.

• In the sixties, we made music and recordings in the basement of our parents' house and soon we were a whole group of young people making music in different constellations.
• In the seventies, we both went to music school and became music teachers. We made a number of tours playing folkmusic interwoven with some storytelling.
• In the eighties, we formed Intermezzo, a theatre group that appeared on a great number of stages on the west coast of Sweden.
• In the nineties, Intermezzo continued playing cabarets; this time for different enterprises. We wrote material on demand - like, for example, a cabaret based on an official report on health care.
• On this side of the Millenium shift, we have had some interesting projects like international folk music concerts, text writing and recordings.

We have played on all kinds of stages ranging from the streets of Budapest and the metro of Paris to large lecture halls. We played music for dancing in northern Norway, folk music in nursing homes in fishing villages north of Göteborg and attended fiddlers' rallies in Dalecarlia. We performed on intimate city cabaret stages in Göteborg. With our written material, we were part of on-the-job training seminars both in private and public companies (like for example the National Post Agency, the County Administrative Board, The Bank of Sweden, the Social Insurance Office, Telia, the National Road Administration and the Municipality of Trollhättan)