SWEDEN’S leading roots music ambassadors have enthralled audiences from Japan to the USA – and are set to do the same in Kendal this month.

Festival favourites Väsen will play at Kendal’s Brewery Arts Centre on November 12.

The trio, in constant demand, has travelled far and wide and is a big attraction in America, especially in Bloomington, Indiana, where they are so popular that local residents successfully petitioned to have a street named after them.

This will be a rare visit to the UK and Ireland (they have appeared at Bath International Music Festival, Celtic Connections and Shetland Folk Festivals previously) and earlier this year were the headline act at the big Fiddle Fest event at The Sage Theatre in Gateshead on Tyneside.

Reviews tend to be glowing in their praise and littered with terms such as “hypnotic”, “magnificent”, “enchanting” and “entrancing.”

Dirty Linen described them as “an acoustic tour de force”, while The Herald (Scotland) called them “one of the best folk acts in the world today,” arts reviewer Rob Adams adding: “move heaven and earth for a ticket!”