Folk/world

Sweden is a small country and the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm mints a number of traditional players each year. So Alicia Björnsdotter Abrams, of the all-female foursome Ditt Ditt Darium, affirms that there is a lot of touring beyond the borders involved — with Germany, Japan and the U.S. featured prominently on the itineraries. Lucky for her fellow Ditts, Abrams now makes her home in Philly, thanks to an impossibly romantic encounter in a Venetian train depot while on a solo music tour. (Make her tell it in concert, you'll swoon!) DDD's name is an early bit of irreverence: Nonsense syllables mock church Latin across the centuries in a song they perform. Between the two fiddlers and two singers they define their repertoire as "Swedish Music from Coast to Coast" and have named their newly released live CD the same, with big helpings of coastal culture from the Baltic and North Seas.

Thu., Sept. 29, 7:30 p.m., $13-$15, Lansdowne Folk Club, 84 S. Lansdowne Ave., 610-622-7250, www.folkclub.org.