Nyckelharpa player Anna Gustavsson will come to Beethoven and Banjos from her home in Uppsala, Sweden.

CRYSTAL FALLS — The fourth annual Beethoven and Banjos music festival is set for Friday through Sunday at several sites in the region.

The three concerts include:

— 7:30 p.m. Eastern time Friday at Reynolds Recital Hall on Northern Michigan University campus in Marquette;

— 7:30 p.m. Eastern time Saturday at the Finnish American Heritage Center on Finlandia University campus in Hancock;

— 2 p.m. Sunday at the Crystal Theatre in Crystal Falls.

Evan Premo, artistic director and an Upper Peninsula native, promises a fabulous blend of classical and folk music that will feature folk music of Norway and Sweden, baroque music and some unusual instruments.

The 2018 featured folk musicians are Norwegian hardingfela (handanger fiddle) player Guro Kvifte Nesheim and Swedish nyckelharpa (key fiddle) player Anna Gustavsson. On the classical music side, the festival welcomes to the U.P. for the first time New York-based theorbo (large lute) and renaissance guitar player Paul Holmes Morton.

Returning musicians include regulars Laurel Premo on fiddle and banjo, Anna Elashvili on violin, Mary Bonhag on soprano and Evan Premo. This year, in addition to double bass, Evan Premo will play the viola da gamba, a baroque seven-string cello-like instrument with frets. Concerts and workshops will be delivered to students and public audiences during the week-long festival.

“We will perform baroque music on folk instruments and folk music on baroque instruments and all possible combinations therein,” Evan Premo said. “These distinct sound worlds will blend perfectly to create unique sounds never before heard.”

The festival will premiere two newly commissioned works by Nesheim and Gustavsson about Norwegian and Swedish immigration to the upper Midwest.

These unique programs are created especially for the Beethoven and Banjos audiences.

Admission is a free-will donation.

“The U.P. audiences inspire us to create musical experiences that endure in the memories of all those who attend,” Evan Premo said.

Beethoven and Banjos musicians gather for an intensive, week-long experience of preparation, writing, rehearsing, student programs and performances.

For more information, go to www.beethovenandbanjos.org or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/beethovenandbanjos.